From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:27 -0400 Message-ID: <48FF0807.8060501@garzik.org> References: <20081020170917.6277.21228.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <20081020171535.6277.50.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Catalin Marinas Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:40057 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751894AbYJVLBa (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081020171535.6277.50.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > --- > drivers/net/smc911x.c | 25 ++++++++----------------- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) applied 1-3