From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:04:25 -0700
> This improves the bridge local receive path by avoiding going > through another softirq. The bridge receive path is already being called > from a netif_receive_skb() there is no point in going through another > receiveq round trip. > > Recursion is limited because bridge can never be a port of a bridge > so handle_bridge() always returns. I applied all 6 patches, but this one in particular I'd like to comment on. Remember all of those bridge netfilter stack usage issues we have a few months ago? This could edge us back into those problems again.
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