On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:16:49PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > Hence, I think we can actually get away without more locking if we > > > protect the flags better. Should we use a spinlock or the atomic > > > set_bit()/clear_bit()/etc. operations? > > > > Using the atomic operations seems appropriate to me. > > Right, but I figured if we could get rid of the AMPDU spinlocks and just > use a single one in total (for flags as well) then that'd be of benefit > too; even with the dynamic allocation strategy (see other mail) we'd not > need to allocate two more spinlocks for ampdu. Yes, I thought that was behind your question. I'll let Ron comment on the AMPDU spinlock usage. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
