From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: shawvrana@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: e1000_down and tx_timeout worker race cleaning the transmit buffers
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:24:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145582676.3195.18.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421024024.GA29644@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 12:40 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> One simple solution is to establish a separate queue for RTNL-holding
> users or vice versa for non-RTNL holding networking users. That
> would allow the drivers to safely flush the non-RTNL queue while
> holding the RTNL.
You mean a separate workqueue for net drivers to use instead of the
keventd_wq? Yeah, I think that'll work. Each driver can also create its
own workqueue but that may be a bit more wasteful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200604201035.00100.shaw@vranix.com>
2006-04-20 23:36 ` e1000_down and tx_timeout worker race cleaning the transmit buffers Herbert Xu
2006-04-20 23:51 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-20 22:36 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 1:27 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 1:33 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 0:10 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 2:37 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 2:40 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 1:24 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-04-21 13:27 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-21 15:28 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 20:01 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-21 19:00 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 20:46 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-27 0:14 ` Shaw
2006-04-27 4:55 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-29 21:57 ` Shaw Vrana
2006-04-21 2:42 ` Shaw Vrana
2006-04-21 1:33 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 3:05 ` shaw
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