Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMP with linux | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:58:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> can anyone give me some information what I'd have to do, > to make a linux device-driver SMP secure.
Deal with the locking. Your transmit routine is single threaded but may be running at the same time as an IRQ on a 2nd cpu, statistics queries on cpus and also multicast list updates.
> Can I use skbuffs ( and their functions ) in a SMP > environment ?
Yes.
> Are there some related documents in the web ?
For the sk_buff's we have a start ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/kernel-api.pdf
is a WIP.
Alan
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