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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	Philip.Blundell@pobox.com,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net #6
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 00:24:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010531002437.A21681@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105300044.CAA04542@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> <E1550vA-0005Xe-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E1550vA-0005Xe-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:01:36AM +0100

Hi!

> They are neccessary
> 
> > @@ -643,9 +631,7 @@
> >  	        eexp_hw_tx_pio(dev,data,length);
> >  	}
> >  	dev_kfree_skb(buf);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
> > -#endif
> >  	enable_irq(dev->irq);
> >  	return 0;
> 
> They are done this way to get good non SMP performance. Your changes would
> ruin that.

Maybe macro "spin_lock_irqsave_on_smp()" would be good idea? These
ifdefs look ugly. Maybe local to driver, maybe even global.
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-31 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-30  0:44 [PATCH] net #6 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-30  8:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-30 10:35   ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-30 22:24   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-05-31 21:35     ` Alan Cox

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