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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Sundance network driver (D-Link DFE-580TX) timeouts rendering
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:41:17 +0000
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On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:28 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 =C3=A0 14:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings a =C3=A9crit :
>=20
> > Yes, I spotted that.  But no descriptors are pushed to the hardware
> > here; that's done in the driver's TX tasklet.  Although... maybe that
> > can run immediately when scheduled from here?  I've never had to deal
> > with tasklets so I really don't know their semantics.
>=20
> Thats probable on SMP ...

The bug report is for a UP system running a kernel built with
SMP-alternatives.

Ben.

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