On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 08:14 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Also, please dont call this a 'recursive lock', since it is not a general > > recursive lock, as pointed by Linus and Paul. > > > > Second question is about MAX_LOCK_DEPTH > > I meant here the ~256 limit we have on preempt_count, not related to LOCKDEP Very good point, so 256 nested spin_lock() instances will make the kernel unhappy -- since we now (almost?) support up to 4096 cpus, this seems like a no-no. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
