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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/via-rhine.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/via-rhine.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c index 93b74b7b7077..8d405c83df8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c @@ -191,12 +191,13 @@ IIId. Synchronization The driver runs as two independent, single-threaded flows of control. One is the send-packet routine, which enforces single-threaded use by the -dev->priv->lock spinlock. The other thread is the interrupt handler, which -is single threaded by the hardware and interrupt handling software. +netdev_priv(dev)->lock spinlock. The other thread is the interrupt handler, +which is single threaded by the hardware and interrupt handling software. The send packet thread has partial control over the Tx ring. It locks the -dev->priv->lock whenever it's queuing a Tx packet. If the next slot in the ring -is not available it stops the transmit queue by calling netif_stop_queue. +netdev_priv(dev)->lock whenever it's queuing a Tx packet. If the next slot in +the ring is not available it stops the transmit queue by +calling netif_stop_queue. The interrupt handler has exclusive control over the Rx ring and records stats from the Tx ring. After reaping the stats, it marks the Tx queue entry as |
