Re: No locking is needed ... why?

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:37:56 -0300 (BRST)


On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Kirill Ratkin wrote:

> Could somebody explain me this comment?:
> /*
> * Incoming packets are placed on per-cpu queues so that
> * no locking is needed.
> */

> I didn't understand why packets are placed so and why
> locking isn't needed?

Each CPU has its own data structure here. This means no
other CPU will touch this queue (they have their own)
so there is nobody we could ever race against.

regards,

Rik

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