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SubjectRe: [patch] net: dev_watchdog() locking fix
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:19:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Like this?
>
> /* don't get messages out of order, and no recursion */
> if (skb_queue_len(&npinfo->txq) == 0 &&
> npinfo->poll_owner != smp_processor_id()) {
> local_bh_disable(); /* Where's netif_tx_trylock_bh()? */
> if (netif_tx_trylock(dev)) {
> /* try until next clock tick */
> for (tries = jiffies_to_usecs(1)/USEC_PER_POLL;
> tries > 0; --tries) {
> if (!netif_queue_stopped(dev))
> status = dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, dev);
>
> if (status == NETDEV_TX_OK)
> break;
>
> /* tickle device maybe there is some cleanup */
> netpoll_poll(np);
>
> udelay(USEC_PER_POLL);
> }
> netif_tx_unlock(dev);
> }
> local_bh_enable();
> }

Looks good to me. Thanks Andrew!
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