Subject: Re: Oops in filter add

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:18:29 -0400

On Tue, 2007-20-03 at 07:58 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> jamal wrote:

> > The main idea is to avoid one BigLock for both ingress and egress;
> > Which was/is still useful in the compat mode where netfilter is used
> > instead. 
> 
> 
> In that case is isn't even used.
> 

Ok. It certainly used to matter in the old days.

> You would need to make qdisc_lock_tree() aware of the difference
> between ingress and egress.

If you have the cycles please go ahead - I really dont have much time
today (have to present in a few hours and havent even started).
I will most certainly look in 1-2 days; for now the queue_lock should
suffice; 

cheers,
jamal