From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:49:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46036A75.6030005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070316210155.954697018@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Rather than a workqueue and a per-board mutex to control PHY,
> use a tasklet and spinlock. Tasklet is lower overhead and works
> just as well for this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Like we give a crap about overhead of PHY code.
This seems like the wrong direction to me, but let's see where this leads.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 21:01 [PATCH 0/7] Skge driver update Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 1/7] skge: deadlock on tx timeout Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-23 5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 2/7] skge: mask irqs when device down Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-23 5:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 4/7] skge: ignore unused error interrupts Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-23 5:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 5/7] skge: transmit locking improvements Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 6/7] skge: rearrange fields Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-16 21:01 ` [PATCH 7/7] skge: version 1.11 Stephen Hemminger
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