On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:01:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:41:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > I also want to point out another issue.  Any argument wrt. reordering
> > is specious at best because right now reordering from qdisc to device
> > happens anyways.
> 
> This is not true.
> 
> If your device has a qdisc at all, then you will end up in the
> function qdisc_restart, where we release the queue lock only
> after acquiring the TX lock.
> 
> So right now this path does not create any reordering.

Argh! Someone's just broken this.  I think we should restore
the original behaviour.

Thanks,
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