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TX path lock was introduced in order to prevent out of order invocations of TX. This can happen in the following flow: TX path invoked from net dev Packet dequeued TX path invoked from RX path Packet dequeued Packet TXed Packet TXed However, we don't really need a lock. If TX path is already invoked from some location, other paths can simply abort their execution, instead of waiting to the first path to finish, and then discover queue is (likely) empty or stopped. Replace the lock with an atomic variable to track TX ownership. This simplifies the locking dependencies between RX and TX paths, and should improve performance. Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.