From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless transmit
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:52:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803085230.1fafee1a@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <392fb48f0908030407v6fa32f23pb10ca91ecfb2fd67@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:07:49 +0900
Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Here is an alternate (and more intrusive) patch set to solve the
> transmit during restart issues.
>
> These patches avoid introducing a new state variable by
>
> * reworking the transmit queue to work without locks
> * tweaking sky2_down() to avoid invalid tx queue positions being
> received in the status queue
>
> Please let me know if this looks better,
Looks good, I will checkout on a couple of (older) boards as well.
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2009-08-03 11:07 [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless transmit Mike McCormack
2009-08-03 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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