Re: [PATCH] net #6

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 31 May 2001 22:35:38 +0100 (BST)

> > They are done this way to get good non SMP performance. Your changes would
> > ruin that.
>
> Maybe macro "spin_lock_irqsave_on_smp()" would be good idea? These
> ifdefs look ugly. Maybe local to driver, maybe even global.

I had that argument with Linus about globally and ended up with ifdefs.
I agree about locally - feel free

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