From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netif_tx_disable and lockless TX
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:01:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149116466.4022.5.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060601002525.GA19220@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:25 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:09:08PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
> > Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:20:29 -0700
> >
> > > David, So do we want to fix this issue as proposed by Herbert to replace
> > > tx_lock with xmit_lock? It seems quite straightforward to do. For this
> > > change to work, netpoll also needs to be fixed up a bit to check for
> > > LLTX before getting the xmit_lock.
> >
> > Oh yes, netpoll needs changes, thanks for noticing that.
>
> Why does it need to change? The idea is to take the LLTX flag off tg3
> after the conversion to xmit_lock.
Oh, I thought your idea was to keep the LLTX and just replace tx_lock
with xmit_lock in tg3. But I suppose we can also clear LLTX, remove the
tx_lock in hard_start_xmit and convert the rest to avoid changing
netpoll.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-01 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-31 4:51 netif_tx_disable and lockless TX Michael Chan
2006-05-31 4:58 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 5:11 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 5:14 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 6:26 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 6:31 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 7:08 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 12:06 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 12:36 ` jamal
2006-05-31 12:40 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 13:03 ` jamal
2006-05-31 17:52 ` Robert Olsson
2006-06-02 3:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-02 10:46 ` Robert Olsson
2006-06-14 12:52 ` jamal
2006-05-31 21:20 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-01 0:09 ` David Miller
2006-06-01 0:25 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 23:01 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-06-01 0:42 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-01 0:27 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-01 2:27 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-01 11:15 ` [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock Herbert Xu
2006-06-06 4:32 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 4:44 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 4:50 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 4:57 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 5:10 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 6:01 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 4:58 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 5:04 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 5:09 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 4:57 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 10:22 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-09 5:48 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-09 19:21 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-31 5:30 netif_tx_disable and lockless TX Michael Chan
2006-05-31 5:33 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 4:03 Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 4:13 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 4:17 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 4:13 ` Roland Dreier
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