Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Migrating net/sched to new module interface | Date | Sat, 04 Jan 2003 17:09:41 +1100 |
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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.
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