Re: [RFC] Migrating net/sched to new module interface

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 03:37:04 EST


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:10, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hmm, I thought the sched stuff all runs under the network brlock? If
> so, it doesn't need to be held in, since it's not preemptible.

The packet schedulers transmit, not receive.
They have their own queue locking, along with the device
xmit lock.

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