lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2009]   [Mar]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    From
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe
    Date
    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/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2009-03-30 08:27    [W:3.308 / U:0.912 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site