> > 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.

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meem
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