jamal wrote: > On Mon, 2007-19-03 at 19:22 -0700, David Miller wrote: > >>It looks like the idea might have been to allow more parallelized >>running of ingress filters, but this is done wrong and leads to >>the crashes you are seeing. > > > The main idea is to avoid one BigLock for both ingress and egress; > Which was/is still useful in the compat mode where netfilter is used > instead.
In that case is isn't even used. >>Can you just replace the above with dev->queue_lock and see if >>that makes your problem go away? THanks. > > > It should; > i will stare at the code later and see if i can send a better patch, > maybe a read_lock(qdisc_tree_lock). You would need to make qdisc_lock_tree() aware of the difference between ingress and egress. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
