Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:28:44 +0200 |
| |
Am Montag 30 März 2009 01:32:34 schrieb Larry Finger: > On an SMP system, the following message is printed. The patch below gets > fixes the problem.
Thanks for this report and the patch. I think, however that it introduces unneeded locking. It seems to me that we should be fine if we fix kaweth_start_xmit(). That code assumes that it is called with interrupts off and under a spinlock. Is that incorrect?
Regards Oliver
-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |