Re: [PATCH] bcm63xx_enet: fix poll callback.

Nicolas Schichan
2015-03-03T13:53:39Z

On 03/03/2015 02:42 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> To avoid that, I would take priv->tx_lock only once, or add a limit on
>> the number of skbs that can be drained per round.
>
> Something like this (untested) patch

I'm not against testing this patch, but we do not have any SMP capable bcm63xx
board here so I don't think it will be of any use.

bcm6358 and bcm6368 do indeed have two MIPS threads, but SMP is not possible
(due to a data cache or TLB shared across all MIPS threads , unbearably
complicating things, IIRC).

bcm63xx ARM SoCs look like they can support SMP though.

Regards,

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Nicolas Schichan
Freebox SAS