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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:43:38 -0400
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On Tue, 2007-25-09 at 18:15 -0400, jamal wrote:

> A further optimization i made was to reduce the time it takes to hold
> the tx lock at the driver by moving gunk that doesnt need lock-holding
> into the new method dev->hard_end_xmit() (refer to patch #2)

Sorry, that should have read dev->hard_prep_xmit()

cheers,
jamal