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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Do Tx handling in a separate tasklet.
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Vladislav Zolotarov" <vladz@broadcom.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:19:42 +0200

> This patch moves the 'Tx interrupt work' of each Tx queue from the hardIRQ
> context to the separate low-latency tasklet. Otherwise there is a possibility
> of a software lockup situation in a Tx softIRQ as it handles freeing all skb's
> 'freed' in (hard)IRQ context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>

Use NAPI, please...