From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [RFC][NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:33:25 -0400 Message-ID: <1190255605.4818.25.camel@localhost> References: <20070917.190133.79431533.davem@davemloft.net> <1190083728.4237.59.camel@localhost> <1190208832.4259.6.camel@localhost> <20070919.090937.32177545.davem@davemloft.net> 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 ([66.249.82.230]:33480 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752698AbXITCd3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:33:29 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so314114wxd for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:33:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070919.090937.32177545.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-19-09 at 09:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Sure, along with a description as to why you want to make this > change. Will do. And if you feel that i should sit on it a little more i can do that too. The good news is it doesnt make things any worse than they already are and infact shows a slight improvement in a 4 cpu machine. > I still don't understand the impetus. :) I will like to use the effect later on to improve batching. cheers, jamal