[Jeff added to cc list - it's a network driver question]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > /* Give a racing hard_start_xmit a few cycles to complete. */
> > > - synchronize_kernel();
I haven't read the whole driver, but what about
spin_unlock_wait(&dev->xmit_lock);
?
hard_start_xmit is called under dev->xmit_lock, waiting until the lock is
free would guarantee that all running instances of hard_start_xmit have
completed.
Jeff: Is that still correct?
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Manfred
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