Re: Bridging-bug with hacker-kernels on Alpha

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:08:59 +0100 (BST)

> > Thats broken, but for completely different reasons. Its disabling interrupts
> > when the skb_* stuff is now spinlocked.
>
> Alan, look again. Only the non __ versions of skb_* call the spinlocks.

Yes yes I know that - what I mean is the

cli()
__skb_blah
sti()

stuff is _extremely_ slow in 2.1 in comparison to the non __ version

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