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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: use netif_receive_skb in ieee80211_tx_status callpath

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On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:47 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > This avoids the extra queueing from calling netif_rx.
> 
> John, can you please revert this? It's causing issues because we don't
> necessarily have BHs disabled here with all drivers (see below).
> Depending on the RCU implementation, it might disable BHs, but not all
> of them do or need to.
> 
> Alternatively, we can require drivers to call ieee80211_tx_status() with
> BHs disabled, but somebody would have to go through them...

For RX, we do this with ieee80211_rx_ni().

johannes

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