Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improvev netconsole support for RTL8139 NIC driver

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:48:20 -0400

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I am being realistic...  it's
> 
> * not needed
> * increases code size
> * increases number of CPU instructions executed
> * not needed

I also wonder if using spin_lock_irqsave() makes moving to a real-time 
kernel with interrupt threads more difficult for that driver.

And of course we're talking about a hot path here.

	Jeff