ixgbe rx & tx locks

Vijay Singh vijju.singh at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 20:48:45 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah yes, at one time I was keeping the RX side lock when calling the stack,
> but then as I recall that had problems, so the code now releases and
> reaquires
> as you can see. It results in some contention but I'm not sure that's
> avoidable.

Jack, I am wondering if this could be avoided if we can avoid to
enqueue the task OR re-enable interrupts if the other one is already
scheduled. Is this possible?


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