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

Lai Jiangshan
2009-04-21T08:45:28Z

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Netfilter as long as other generic network pathes are never accessed
> from interrupt context, but your analysis looks right for the softirq
> case.
>

A question:

softirq is always not nesting. Why we need recursive lock?

Lai.