Re: [RT PATCH 2/2] net: add a lock around icmp_sk()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 09:11:09 EST


On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 10:11 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> On !RT local_lock() is preempt_disable().
> On RT local_lock() is a per-CPU sleeping spinlock which can be taken
> recursively by the owner.

Ok, thanks for the explanation, the 'recursively' part I was not aware
of ;)