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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:02:55 +0000
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:39:48PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> Maybe, it's better to
> analyze yet if it's really so hard to eliminate taking this lock
> on the xmit path?

BTW, I'm not sure if it helps, but this matters only for the sockets
which could be used (and locked) outside of pppol2tp code (so before
pppol2tp code is called).

Jarek P.