On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > can anyone give me some information what I'd have to do,
> > to make a linux device-driver SMP secure.
>
> Deal with the locking. Your transmit routine is single threaded but may be
> running at the same time as an IRQ on a 2nd cpu, statistics queries on
> cpus and also multicast list updates.
A small correction: multicast list updates are serialized with transmits.
Andrey
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