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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-15 11:15:08 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-15 11:15:08 +0400
commitb9e40857682ecfc5bcd0356a23ff409883ffb982 (patch)
treed241fd289bed6d16f36f6d26815c1e78e212c89a /drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
parente308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 (diff)
downloadlinux-b9e40857682ecfc5bcd0356a23ff409883ffb982.tar.xz
netdev: Do not use TX lock to protect address lists.
Now that we have a specific lock to protect the network device unicast and multicast lists, remove extraneous grabs of the TX lock in cases where the code only needs address list protection. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/sfc/efx.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/sfc/efx.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
index e1257e556e48..7b2015f9e469 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
@@ -696,10 +696,8 @@ static void efx_stop_port(struct efx_nic *efx)
/* Serialise against efx_set_multicast_list() */
if (efx_dev_registered(efx)) {
- netif_tx_lock_bh(efx->net_dev);
- netif_addr_lock(efx->net_dev);
- netif_addr_unlock(efx->net_dev);
- netif_tx_unlock_bh(efx->net_dev);
+ netif_addr_lock_bh(efx->net_dev);
+ netif_addr_unlock_bh(efx->net_dev);
}
}