Re: [PATCH (resent with the attachment !)] netfilter : zap get_cpu()/put_cpu() calls from ip_tables

2005-11-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Eric Dumazet wrote: The 'ip_tables: NUMA-aware allocation' patch (http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.16.git;a=commit;h=6d1273850cac8db77c462caaa145b813d93adc55) introduced a problem with get_cpu()/put_cpu() The problem is that get_cpu() disables preemption and the thr

[PATCH (resent with the attachment !)] netfilter : zap get_cpu()/put_cpu() calls from ip_tables

2005-11-25 Thread Eric Dumazet
The 'ip_tables: NUMA-aware allocation' patch (http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.16.git;a=commit;h=6d1273850cac8db77c462caaa145b813d93adc55) introduced a problem with get_cpu()/put_cpu() The problem is that get_cpu() disables preemption and the thread is not allowed to