On Tue, 2007-20-03 at 07:58 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> jamal wrote:

> > The main idea is to avoid one BigLock for both ingress and egress;
> > Which was/is still useful in the compat mode where netfilter is used
> > instead. 
> 
> 
> In that case is isn't even used.
> 

Ok. It certainly used to matter in the old days.

> You would need to make qdisc_lock_tree() aware of the difference
> between ingress and egress.

If you have the cycles please go ahead - I really dont have much time
today (have to present in a few hours and havent even started).
I will most certainly look in 1-2 days; for now the queue_lock should
suffice; 


cheers,
jamal

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