From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753254Ab1ASFdI (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:33:08 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34623 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753097Ab1ASFc7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:32:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:33:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20110118.213332.191380160.davem@davemloft.net> To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@openvz.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk, ian.molton@collabora.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: filter: dont block softirqs in sk_run_filter() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1295372812.3290.35.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1295368755-20931-1-git-send-email-ian.molton@collabora.co.uk> <1295371361.3290.15.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1295372812.3290.35.camel@edumazet-laptop> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:52 +0100 > Packet filter (BPF) doesnt need to disable softirqs, being fully > re-entrant and lock-less. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.