On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:47 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 1) you need (a) well-designed hardware _and_ (b) a smart driver writer
> to avoid bottlenecking on internal driver locks.  As you can see we have
> both (a) and (b) for tg3 ;-)  

How about the following patch which fixes #b for e1000 ;->
I think the e1000s challenges are related to the gazillion variations of
boards they support and a little challenge of too many intel cooks.

Auke, why do you need the tx ring lock?

cheers,
jamal