> can anyone give me some information what I'd have to do,
> to make a linux device-driver SMP secure.
Deal with the locking. Your transmit routine is single threaded but may be
running at the same time as an IRQ on a 2nd cpu, statistics queries on
cpus and also multicast list updates.
> Can I use skbuffs ( and their functions ) in a SMP
> environment ?
Yes.
> Are there some related documents in the web ?
For the sk_buff's we have a start
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/kernel-api.pdf
is a WIP.
Alan
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