[PATCH RFC] gianfar: Do not call skb recycling with disabled IRQs

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:53:08PM +0530, Kumar Gopalpet-B05799 wrote:
[...]
> >(spin_trylock_irqsave(&tx_queue->txlock, flags)) {
> >-				tx_cleaned += 
> >gfar_clean_tx_ring(tx_queue);
> >-				
> >spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tx_queue->txlock,
> >-							flags);
> >-			}
> >+			netif_tx_lock_bh(priv->ndev);
> 
> Will this not lead to locking all the tx queues even though at this
> point we are working on a "particular queue" ?

Yeah, per-txq locking would be better (or not.. I need to netperf
it).

Thanks,

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