Re: [timers] net/ipv4

[Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've revisited net/ipv4/* and I agree it's safe.

kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >   OK as long as always called from BH context.
> 
> Forget about this argument.

I was assuming that the network rx path was called from bh_action() and
hence that timers are serialised wrt network rx, But not process
context.

I see now that network rx is a softirq and is async wrt timers, which
makes things tougher.