Subject: Re: [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock

From: Roland Dreier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:44:01 -0700

> IPOIB is going to BUG() with this change.  Because now, in their
 > multicast code, you're going to local_bh_disable() via
 > netif_tx_unlock() with hw IRQs disabled which is illegal.
 > 
 > It shows a bug here in the locking of the IPOIB driver.

Sorry, I haven't followed this thread closely.  Can you expand on what
the bug in ipoib's multicast locking is?

Thanks,
  Roland