Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:56:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [RFC,PATCH 3/4] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched |
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[Jeff added to cc list - it's a network driver question]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > > /* Give a racing hard_start_xmit a few cycles to complete. */ > > > - synchronize_kernel(); I haven't read the whole driver, but what about spin_unlock_wait(&dev->xmit_lock); ? hard_start_xmit is called under dev->xmit_lock, waiting until the lock is free would guarantee that all running instances of hard_start_xmit have completed.
Jeff: Is that still correct?
-- Manfred
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