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From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Locking model for NAPI drivers
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:16:36 +1000
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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 08:48, David S. Miller wrote:
> So the idea is, if we can make all of the spinlocks BH locks we'll
> solve a whole bunch of problems:
> [...]
> 2) the driver will actually produce useful profiling data
>    via oprofile and friends since timer interrupts will run
>    even while holding the locks

That would be really, really nice.

Greg.
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