ixgbe & if_igb RX ring locking

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:39:24AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
J> > To me this unlock/lock looks like a legacy from times, when the driver
J> > had a single mutex for both TX and RX parts.
J> >
J> > And removing this re-locking in foo_rxeof() was one of the aims for
J> > separate
J> > TX/RX locking.
J> >
J> > Really, lurking through history shows that once driver had split its
J> > locking
J> > to separate RX and TX part, these unlock/lock was removed. However, later
J> > this unlock/lock was added back:
J> >
J> >
J> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c?revision=209068&view=markup
J> >
J> > , without any comments for the reason it is added back.
J> >
J> > I did not want to add it back, there were problems that constrained me to
J> do so, although its
J> been some time, I'd be happy to do some testing again without and see.

Can you please dig through mail archives to identify these problems? I
can't imagine any.

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