On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> wrote:

> Holding the mac learning rwlock while calling send_packet() which
> calls xlate_actions() is dangerous because somewhere deep in the chain
> the same lock might be acquired causing a deadlock.  Though we haven't
> run into this problem in testing, it seems prudent to refactor it.

This would be a problem only if there was a nested attempt on a write lock, 
right?

  Jarno
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