Re: SMP Lockups III -The Search for Stability

From: Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 11:03:13 EST


Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:

> Philippe Troin wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > gcc 2.95 is not supported for kernel compilations.
>
> And it takes 50% longer...
>
>
> David, the 2.2.x driver for 3c905 has some dubious SMP handling and does
> a __global_save_flags()/__global_cli()/__global_restore_flags() for each
> Tx packet (slow).

I use 3c905 on a SMP system without any problem :-)

Phil.

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