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Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] mac80211: proper STA info locking

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On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 18:23 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
> and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
> structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
> especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
> be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
> CPUs at the same time.

No objections? I remember Tomas wasn't entirely happy with the
suggestion that RX/TX aggregation don't need separate spinlocks.

johannes

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