Re: cli() / sti()

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:37:29 +0100 (BST)

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> In ioctl part start_bh_atomic/end_bh_atomic is good replacement.
> In transmitter just delete them. hard_start_xmit's are serialized
> by top layer at the moment.

Are you sure. As it stands at the moment a hard_start_xmit from a user
context can be interrupted by a timer_bh hard_start_xmit

Alan

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