Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11)

[Lai Jiangshan]

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> Netfilter as long as other generic network pathes are never accessed
> from interrupt context, but your analysis looks right for the softirq
> case.
> 

A question:

softirq is always not nesting. Why we need recursive lock?

Lai.

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