Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-CPU r**ursive lock {XV}
From: David Miller
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 09:44:01 EST
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
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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