From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:33:44 +0100
> I think we will also need to limit the depth of the device stack so we > don't run out of stack space here. __netif_receive() implements a kind > of tail recursion whenever a packet is passed up, but > __netdev_has_upper_dev() can't avoid doing real recursion (without the > addition of a flag to net_device so it can mark its progress). Agreed, we need some kind of limit here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
