From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [RT PATCH 2/2] net: add a lock around icmp_sk() Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 06:11:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1472735460.5019.21.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com> References: <20160831160049.14303-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20160831160049.14303-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1472661463.14381.327.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com> <20160901081146.nabh52qssjkvztxz@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, Steven Rostedt , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160901081146.nabh52qssjkvztxz@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 10:11 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On !RT local_lock() is preempt_disable(). > On RT local_lock() is a per-CPU sleeping spinlock which can be taken > recursively by the owner. Ok, thanks for the explanation, the 'recursively' part I was not aware of ;)