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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: "Jeffrey V\. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recursive spinlocks for Network Recursion Bugs in 2.6.18
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:20:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061212092014.GA1922@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457A6637.3060101@wolfmountaingroup.com>

On 09-12-2006 08:31, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> 
> This code segment in /net/core/dev.c is a prime example of the need for 
> recursive spin locks.
...
> Recursive spinlocks perform the logic
...
> LONG rspin_lock(rlock_t *rlock)
...
> LONG rspin_unlock(rlock_t *rlock)
...

Could you give some hint how this code from dev.c
should be changed to gain by this?

Jarek P. 

      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-09  7:31 Recursive spinlocks for Network Recursion Bugs in 2.6.18 Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-12-12  9:20 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]

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