Re: [patch] net: dev_watchdog() locking fix

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Dec 09 2006 - 17:02:28 EST


From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:59:52 +1100

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:19:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Like this?
> >
> > /* don't get messages out of order, and no recursion */
> > if (skb_queue_len(&npinfo->txq) == 0 &&
> > npinfo->poll_owner != smp_processor_id()) {
> > local_bh_disable(); /* Where's netif_tx_trylock_bh()? */
> > if (netif_tx_trylock(dev)) {
> > /* try until next clock tick */
> > for (tries = jiffies_to_usecs(1)/USEC_PER_POLL;
> > tries > 0; --tries) {
> > if (!netif_queue_stopped(dev))
> > status = dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, dev);
> >
> > if (status == NETDEV_TX_OK)
> > break;
> >
> > /* tickle device maybe there is some cleanup */
> > netpoll_poll(np);
> >
> > udelay(USEC_PER_POLL);
> > }
> > netif_tx_unlock(dev);
> > }
> > local_bh_enable();
> > }
>
> Looks good to me. Thanks Andrew!

I've applied this patch, thanks a lot.
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