Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:43:40 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-CPU r**ursive lock {XV} | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:40:33 +0200
> IMHO this locking construct should be considered for > linux/local_lock.h and kernel/local_lock.c. Even if the netfilter > code drops its use soon afterwards ;-)
If you can show me have to pass a per-cpu variable (the variable, not a dereference of it) as an argument to an inline function, I'll implement this :-)
It has to be dereferenced after local_bh_disable() for the read side acquisition.
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