Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:49:41 -0400

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Rather than a workqueue and a per-board mutex to control PHY,
> use a tasklet and spinlock. Tasklet is lower overhead and works
> just as well for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>

Like we give a crap about overhead of PHY code.

This seems like the wrong direction to me, but let's see where this leads.

	Jeff