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| author | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2006-06-20 06:56:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2006-06-20 06:56:23 +0200 |
| commit | 98174e46974323e4941c72e46345f7277755e146 (patch) | |
| tree | c4644c8f38a519cfb3929d1175fc7107eefe48b9 /Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | |
| parent | [XFS] Remove files from the build that are now unused. (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus (diff) | |
| download | linux-98174e46974323e4941c72e46345f7277755e146.tar.xz linux-98174e46974323e4941c72e46345f7277755e146.zip | |
Merge HEAD from ../linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt index 3c0a5ba614d7..847cedb238f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ dev->get_stats: Context: nominally process, but don't sleep inside an rwlock dev->hard_start_xmit: - Synchronization: dev->xmit_lock spinlock. + Synchronization: netif_tx_lock spinlock. When the driver sets NETIF_F_LLTX in dev->features this will be - called without holding xmit_lock. In this case the driver + called without holding netif_tx_lock. In this case the driver has to lock by itself when needed. It is recommended to use a try lock for this and return -1 when the spin lock fails. The locking there should also properly protect against @@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ dev->hard_start_xmit: Only valid when NETIF_F_LLTX is set. dev->tx_timeout: - Synchronization: dev->xmit_lock spinlock. + Synchronization: netif_tx_lock spinlock. Context: BHs disabled Notes: netif_queue_stopped() is guaranteed true dev->set_multicast_list: - Synchronization: dev->xmit_lock spinlock. + Synchronization: netif_tx_lock spinlock. Context: BHs disabled dev->poll: |