[openib-general] Re: [PATCH]: was Re: LLTX and netif_stop_queue

David S. Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jan 25 22:27:05 PST 2005


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:54:52 +0100
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh at wantstofly.org> wrote:

> If multiple CPUs can call into the tunneling drivers without taking
> any locks, we'd need some extra locking in there, or just do what
> Alexey describes and keep track of recursion in the skb.

Another idea is that, just like how loopback made it's statistics
per-cpu for LLTX support, this recursion variable could be per-cpu
as well.



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