On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:21:23PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > Network processing is not longer done in soft-interrupt context. That > means that processes doing syscalls no longer need to raise the IPL > level to guarantee consistency, the KERNEL_LOCK() is enough.
For the current situation this is correct. But when we run the network stack independent of the kernel lock, we need more locks. I don't know how this will look like in NFS. For now I would leave the splsoftnet() to show that there is something that has to be considered. bluhm
