Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11)

From: Lai Jiangshan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:42:40 +0800

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> Netfilter as long as other generic network pathes are never accessed
> from interrupt context, but your analysis looks right for the softirq
> case.
> 

A question:

softirq is always not nesting. Why we need recursive lock?

Lai.