On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:53:17PM -0700, Ethan Jackson 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.
> 
> Reported-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com>

I guess it seems a little inefficient memorywise, but probably good
enough.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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