[Lguest] [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/6] virtio net driver
Christian Borntraeger
borntraeger at de.ibm.com
Sat Sep 22 00:42:25 EST 2007
Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu:
> Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid
> of it since it's
>
> 1) unnecessary;
> 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice.
Ok, but then I cannot reuse the xmit lock in an interrupt handler. Otherwise
deadlock can occur because hard_start_xmit has interrupts enabled.
Rusty, seems we need an additional lock.
Christian
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