From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 2/3] tg3: Convert to non-LLTX
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:29:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149542985.13155.11.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060605155834.031d37a2@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:58 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Since you are going more lockless, you probably need memory barriers.
No, we're not going more lockless. We're simply replacing the private
tx_lock with dev->xmit_lock by dropping the LLTX feature flag. The
amount of locking is exactly the same as before.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-05 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-05 19:47 [PATCH 2.6.18 2/3] tg3: Convert to non-LLTX Michael Chan
2006-06-05 22:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-05 21:29 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-06-06 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-05 23:34 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-05 23:06 ` David Miller
2006-06-18 4:58 ` David Miller
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