From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [RFC][NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1189975939.4230.19.camel@localhost> References: <1189959274.4241.30.camel@localhost> <20070916.123158.92582301.davem@davemloft.net> <1189975284.4230.14.camel@localhost> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, dada1@cosmosbay.com, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:6342 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715AbXIPUwX (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:52:23 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1180936wxd for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:52:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1189975284.4230.14.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-16-09 at 16:41 -0400, jamal wrote: > indeed. > Ok, maybe i am thinking too hard with that patch, so help me out:-> Ok, that was probably too much of an explanation. What i should say is if i grabbed the lock explicitly without disabling irqs it wont be much different than what is done today and should always work. No? cheers, jamal