Re: SMP with linux

From: Andrey Savochkin (saw@saw.sw.com.sg)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 23:17:39 EST

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    On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:33:45PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Where does tx_timeout() stand wrt hard_start_xmit(), get_stats() and
    > set_multicast_list()?
    >
    > And do_ioclt() wrt all the above?

    hard_start_xmit, tx_timeout, set_multicast_list are serialised using the same
    xmit_lock. For get_stats and ioctl upper layer doens't provide any
    serialisation against the first group.
    ioctl calls are performed under global kernel lock.

    Best regards
                                            Andrey V.
                                            Savochkin

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