bonding: Convert balance-rr transmit to new locking

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Change locking in balance-rr transmit processing to use a free
running counter to determine which slave to transmit on.  Instead, a
free-running counter is maintained, and modulo arithmetic used to select
a slave for transmit.

	This removes lock operations from the TX path, and eliminates
a deadlock introduced by the conversion to work queues.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

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Jay Vosburgh 2007-10-17 17:37:47 -07:00 • committed by Jeff Garzik

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drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

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