Re: [PATCH] Reduce locking in TX path of forcedth driver

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tom Herbert wrote: (Tom, you failed to CC the maintainer at NVIDIA, please fix...) Jeff, Please pardon my naivety, but how would determine who the maintainer at NVDIA is? The MAINTAINERS file lists an Nvidia maintainer only for the framebuffer driver, and I don't see this specified i

Re: [PATCH] Reduce locking in TX path of forcedth driver

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
(Stephen, your mailer is snipping CC's, please fix) (Tom, you failed to CC the maintainer at NVIDIA, please fix...) Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:41:34 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Herbert) wrote: Reduce the amount of locking in the TX path. Instead of using both

Re: [PATCH] Reduce locking in TX path of forcedth driver

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:41:34 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Herbert) wrote: > Reduce the amount of locking in the TX path. Instead of using both > netif_tx_lock and dev->priv->lock on transmitting, a single private lock > (dev->priv->tx_lock) is used. This method is similar to that of the