From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FF0807.8060501@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081020171535.6277.50.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This patch extends the critical regions covered by lp->lock to make it
> safer on SMP. The main failure point was the smc911x_hard_start_xmit
> function being called from different CPUs. It was tested on the ARM SMP
> platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/smc911x.c | 25 ++++++++-----------------
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
applied 1-3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 17:12 [PATCH 0/3] smc911x driver updates Catalin Marinas
2008-10-20 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] smc911x: Allow Kconfig dependency on ARM Catalin Marinas
2008-10-20 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] smc911x: Add IRQ polarity configuration Catalin Marinas
2008-10-20 17:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP Catalin Marinas
2008-10-22 10:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-10-22 11:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-10-22 11:04 ` Catalin Marinas
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