From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: utz.bacher@de.ibm.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>,
Maxim Shchetynin <maxim@de.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: Spider ethernet driver -- protect chain head
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:03:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060422010321.GO7242@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060422001140.GA12826@gate.ebshome.net>
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:11:40PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:45:51PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > Prevent a potential race. If two threads are both calling
> > the transmit routine, both can potentially try to grab the
> > same dma descriptor. Serialize access to the head of the
> > tx ring with spinlocks.
>
> Two threads cannot be in spider_net_xmit() simultaneosuly because
> hard_start_xmit entry point is already protected by net_device
> xmit_lock, see Documentation/net/netdevices.txt
Ahh, thank you. I was wondering why I never semmed to see this
this happen in "real life".
--linas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-22 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 23:29 [PATCH 1/2]: Spider ethernet driver spinlocks Linas Vepstas
2006-04-21 23:45 ` [PATCH 2/2]: Spider ethernet driver -- protect chain head Linas Vepstas
2006-04-22 0:11 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-22 1:03 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
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