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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: chas3@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] locking changes for lec.c
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:33:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050114203351.14effe19.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501150232.j0F2Wovr010942@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:32:51 -0500
"chas williams - CONTRACTOR" <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> In message <20050114135612.0edc180d.davem@davemloft.net>,"David S. Miller" writes:
> >Can HW interrupt paths ever call into this ARP stuff?
> >If not, probably should just use BH disabled locking
> >instead of the heavy handed IRQ disabling locks.
> 
> yes, lec_push() could be run in hw interrupt context from one of of the
> atm drivers recv path.  in fact, this is the path where i "noticed" the
> race condition.

Ok.  As a future thought, if you make the ATM driver receive path
NAPI in style or run always from softint processing, you can
undo all the IRQ based locking.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-15  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 17:17 [RFC] locking changes for lec.c chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-01-14 21:56 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-15  2:32   ` chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-01-15  4:33     ` David S. Miller [this message]

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