2.1.127 3c509 spinlocks warning

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:24:21 +0100 (CET)

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There' s a SMP guy that said me that pre-2.1.127-7 complete lockup (while
2.1.126 deadlock due OOM but doesn't lockup). He uses a 3c509 and I seen
that 2.1.127 add some spinlock that cause the kernel to execute netif_rx()
with the spin locked inside the irq handler.

Andrea Arcangeli

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