From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:04:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1224673448.705.6.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20081020170917.6277.21228.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <20081020171535.6277.50.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <48FF0807.8060501@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.58]:55529 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753515AbYJVLEQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:04:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48FF0807.8060501@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 07:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Catalin Marinas wrote: > > This patch extends the critical regions covered by lp->lock to make it > > safer on SMP. The main failure point was the smc911x_hard_start_xmit > > function being called from different CPUs. It was tested on the ARM SMP > > platforms. > > > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas > > --- > > drivers/net/smc911x.c | 25 ++++++++----------------- > > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > applied 1-3 Thanks. -- Catalin