netxen: remove low level tx lock
o eliminate tx lock in netxen adapter struct, instead pound on netdev tx lock appropriately. o remove old "concurrent transmit" code that unnecessarily drops and reacquires tx lock in hard_xmit_frame(), this is already serialized the netdev xmit lock. o reduce scope of tx lock in tx cleanup. tx cleanup operates on different section of the ring than transmitting cpus and is guarded by producer and consumer indices. This fixes a race caused by rx softirq preemption on realtime kernels. Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Tested-by: Vernon Mauery <mauery@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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