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SubjectRe: [RFC] Migrating net/sched to new module interface
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In message <1041583024.8648.11.camel@rth.ninka.net> you write:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:10, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Hmm, I thought the sched stuff all runs under the network brlock? If
> > so, it doesn't need to be held in, since it's not preemptible.
>
> The packet schedulers transmit, not receive.
> They have their own queue locking, along with the device
> xmit lock.

Then the patch to mark the "owner" should be straightforward. I
haven't looked at kronos's patch in detail, though.

Rusty.
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