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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:48:31 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11)
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* Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

> If this could be done without recursion, I am pretty sure 
> netfilter and network guys would have done it. I found Linus 
> reaction quite shocking IMHO, considering hard work done by all 
> people on this.

Btw., i didnt find Linus's reaction shocking at all, nor did i 
understand it as any criticism of prior (and future) good work of 
the people involved. I found it to be what it was: a forceful 
(because repeated) criticism of a bad patch.

	Ingo