Re: [PATCH] Improvev netconsole support for RTL8139 NIC driver

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 23:48:42 EST


Jeff Garzik wrote:
I am being realistic... it's

* not needed
* increases code size
* increases number of CPU instructions executed
* not needed

I also wonder if using spin_lock_irqsave() makes moving to a real-time kernel with interrupt threads more difficult for that driver.

And of course we're talking about a hot path here.

Jeff


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