Re: [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 22:51:51 EST


On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:29:11 -0500
linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Linas Vepstas) wrote:

> The transmit side of the spider ethernet driver currently
> places locks around some very large chunks of code. This
> results in a fair amount of lock contention is some cases.
> This patch makes the locks much more fine-grained, protecting
> only the cirtical sections. One lock is used to protect
> three locations: the queue head and tail pointers, and the
> queue low-watermark location.

You have spider_net_set_low_watermark() walking the tx_chain outside
tx_chain.lock. Are you sure about that?
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