Re: [PATCH] netfilter: revised locking for x_tables

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 13:10:44 EST




On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ack.
>
> It could do with the update from Eric about how non-current CPU writelocks
> only require preemp-disable around get_counters() (and then the
> local_bh_disable() only around the current-CPU case).

Btw, regardless, that's an incremental improvement, and does not negate
the "Ack" part.

Linus
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