> > But no locks should be held.... If the contention is we have to guard > > against a buggy NIC driver then yes. However, we will sacrifice > > performance to defend against bad behavior. > > Its just _just_ locks. (Although that concern arises as well.) Its the > fact that the read you're running on may be in interrupt context. > > Please, please, don't try to come up with some hackery to make this > work. Its best if we adhere to the rule that ip_input is called from > streams functions, and must adhere to the same rules that all other > streams functions follow that.... that is that thou shalt not sleep. > > Doing anything else is likely to cause spectacular failure at some point > in the future.
*STRONG* second. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
