Re: [RFC,PATCH 3/4] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched

[Manfred Spraul]

[Jeff added to cc list - it's a network driver question]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> > >
> > >  	/* Give a racing hard_start_xmit a few cycles to complete. */
> > > -	synchronize_kernel();
I haven't read the whole driver, but what about
	spin_unlock_wait(&dev->xmit_lock);
?
hard_start_xmit is called under dev->xmit_lock, waiting until the lock is
free would guarantee that all running instances of hard_start_xmit have
completed.

Jeff: Is that still correct?

--
	Manfred

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