#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define REP(i,n) for(int i=0;i<(int)(n);++i)
#define REPR(i,n) for (int i=(int)(n)-1;i>=0;--i)
#define FOR(i,c) for(__typeof((c).begin())i=(c).begin();i!=(c).end();++i)
#define ALL(c) (c).begin(), (c).end()
#define valid(y,x,h,w) (0<=y&&y<h&&0<=x&&x<w)
#define tpl(...) make_tuple(__VA_ARGS__)
const int INF = 0x3f3f3f3f;
const double EPS = 1e-8;
const double PI = acos(-1);
const int dy[] = {-1,0,1,0};
const int dx[] = {0,1,0,-1};
typedef long long ll;
typedef pair<int,int> pii;
template<class T>bool chmax(T &a, const T &b) { if (a<b) { a=b; return 1; } return 0; }
template<class T>bool chmin(T &a, const T &b) { if (b<a) { a=b; return 1; } return 0; }
template<typename Ch,typename Tr,typename C,typename=decltype(begin(C()))>basic_ostream<Ch,Tr>& operator<<(basic_ostream<Ch,Tr>&os,
const C& c){os<<'[';for(auto i=begin(c);i!=end(c);++i)os<<(i==begin(c)?"":" ")<<*i;return os<<']';}
template<class S,class T>ostream&operator<<(ostream &o,const pair<S,T>&t){return o<<'('<<t.first<<','<<t.second<<')';}
template<int N,class Tp>void output(ostream&,const Tp&){}
template<int N,class Tp,class,class ...Ts>void output(ostream &o,const Tp&t){if(N)o<<',';o<<get<N>(t);output<N+1,Tp,Ts...>(o,t);}
template<class ...Ts>ostream&operator<<(ostream&o,const tuple<Ts...>&t){o<<'(';output<0,tuple<Ts...>,Ts...>(o,t);return o<<')';}
template<class T>void output(T t,char z=10){if(t<0)t=-t,putchar(45);int c[20];
int k=0;while(t)c[k++]=t%10,t/=10;for(k||(c[k++]=0);k;)putchar(c[--k]^48);putchar(z);}
template<class T>void outputs(T t){output(t);}
template<class S,class ...T>void outputs(S a,T...t){output(a,32);outputs(t...);}
template<class T>void output(T *a,int n){REP(i,n)cout<<a[i]<<(i!=n-1?',':'\n');}
template<class T>void output(T *a,int n,int m){REP(i,n)output(a[i],m);}
template<class T>bool input(T &t){int n=1,c;for(t=0;!isdigit(c=getchar())&&~c&&c-45;);
if(!~c)return 0;for(c-45&&(n=0,t=c^48);isdigit(c=getchar());)t=10*t+c-48;t=n?-t:t;return 1;}
template<class S,class ...T>bool input(S&a,T&...t){input(a);return input(t...);}
template<class T>bool inputs(T *a, int n) { REP(i,n) if(!input(a[i])) return 0; return 1;}

typedef int Weight;
struct Edge {
  int src, dst;
  Weight weight;
  Edge(int src, int dst, Weight weight) :
    src(src), dst(dst), weight(weight) { }
};
typedef vector<Edge> Edges;
typedef vector<Edges> Graph;

vector<int> tsort(const Graph &g) {
  int n = g.size();
  vector<int> num(n);
  REP(i, n) FOR(e, g[i]) num[e->dst]++;
  queue<int> Q;
  REP(i, n) if (num[i] == 0) Q.push(i);
  vector<int> res;
  while(!Q.empty()) {
    int v = Q.front(); Q.pop();
    res.push_back(v);
    FOR(e, g[v]) {
      if (num[e->dst]) {
        num[e->dst]--;
        if (num[e->dst] == 0) Q.push(e->dst);
      }
    }
  }
  REP(i, n) if (num[i]) return vector<int>();
  return res;
}

Weight longestPathDAG(const Graph &g, const vector<int> &ordered) {
  vector<Weight> dp(g.size());
  int ans = 0;
  FOR(it, ordered) {
    FOR(jt, g[*it]) {
      chmax(dp[jt->dst], dp[*it] + jt->weight);
      chmax(ans, dp[jt->dst]);
    }
  }
  return ans;
}

int main() {
  int n,m;
  while(input(n,m)) {
    Graph g(n);
    REP(i,m) {
      int x,y;
      input(x,y);
      x--;y--;
      g[x].push_back(Edge(x,y,1));
    }
    cout << longestPathDAG(g, tsort(g)) << endl;
  }
}


Measured memory_bytes: 6780