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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 2/3] tg3: Convert to non-LLTX
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:29:45 -0700
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On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:58 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> 
> Since you are going more lockless, you probably need memory barriers.

No, we're not going more lockless. We're simply replacing the private
tx_lock with dev->xmit_lock by dropping the LLTX feature flag. The
amount of locking is exactly the same as before.