Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 22 2009 - 13:49:27 EST



* Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If this could be done without recursion, I am pretty sure
> netfilter and network guys would have done it. I found Linus
> reaction quite shocking IMHO, considering hard work done by all
> people on this.

Btw., i didnt find Linus's reaction shocking at all, nor did i
understand it as any criticism of prior (and future) good work of
the people involved. I found it to be what it was: a forceful
(because repeated) criticism of a bad patch.

Ingo
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