- /*
- * When the driver has LLTX set it does its own locking
- * in start_xmit. No need to add additional overhead by
- * locking again. These checks are worth it because
- * even uncongested locks can be quite expensive.
- * The driver can do trylock like here too, in case
- * of lock congestion it should return -1 and the packet
- * will be requeued.
- */
- if (!nolock) {
- if (!netif_tx_trylock(dev)) {
- collision:
- /* So, someone grabbed the driver. */
-
- /* It may be transient configuration error,
- when hard_start_xmit() recurses. We detect
- it by checking xmit owner and drop the
- packet when deadloop is detected.
- */
- if (dev->xmit_lock_owner == smp_processor_id()) {
- kfree_skb(skb);
- if (net_ratelimit())
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "Dead loop on netdevice %s, fix it urgently!\n", dev->name);
- return -1;
- }
- __get_cpu_var(netdev_rx_stat).cpu_collision++;
- goto requeue;
- }
- }