Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [VLAN]: Update iif when receiving via VLAN device

From: Thomas Graf <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:54:05 +0200

* Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]> 2006-07-09 11:00
> If you mean that the device will also try to grab the qlock there, then
> that is fine still for the serialization. It all starts at
> dev_queue_xmit.

Look at where dev->queue_lock is taken, whenever a qdisc or
filter is added, modified or deleted the lock is taken. Using
your approach packets get dropped while such an operation is
taking place. Your approach is wrong.