Re: Recursive spinlocks for Network Recursion Bugs in 2.6.18

[Jarek Poplawski]

On 09-12-2006 08:31, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> 
> This code segment in /net/core/dev.c is a prime example of the need for 
> recursive spin locks.
...
> Recursive spinlocks perform the logic
...
> LONG rspin_lock(rlock_t *rlock)
...
> LONG rspin_unlock(rlock_t *rlock)
...

Could you give some hint how this code from dev.c
should be changed to gain by this?

Jarek P. 
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