Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:59:21 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330 __netif_schedule+0x2c/0x98() | | From | David Miller <> | |
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:20:36 +0000
> PS: if there is nothing new in lockdep the classical method would
> be to change this static array:
>
> static struct lock_class_key
> netdev_xmit_lock_key[ARRAY_SIZE(netdev_lock_type)];
>
> to
>
> static struct lock_class_key
> netdev_xmit_lock_key[ARRAY_SIZE(netdev_lock_type)][MAX_NUM_TX_QUEUES];
>
> and set lockdep classes per queue as well. (If we are sure we don't
> need lockdep subclasses anywhere this could be optimized by using
> one lock_class_key per 8 queues and spin_lock_nested()).
Unfortunately MAX_NUM_TX_QUEUES is USHORT_MAX, so this isn't really
a feasible approach.
spin_lock_nested() isn't all that viable either, as the subclass
limit is something like 8.
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