Re: [PATCH 1/1] via-rhine: Fix hanging with high CPU load onlow-end broads.

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Dec 29 2011 - 17:06:32 EST


From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:39:02 +0100

> Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
>> Feel free to try the extra "new year's eve week end is getting closer"
>> patch below (against net-next).
>>
>> You have been warned.
>
> The one below could be a bit better.

Obviously you'll need to resolve the use of rp->lock as an IRQ safe lock
in {get,src}_wol() so that this lock is consistently used as a BH safe
lock. Your "Huh?" comments make it clear you are aware of this TODO. :-)

But other than that this patch looks good to me, just some testing and
debugging are needed.
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