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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop
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On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 07:40 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
> <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
>
> > This looks racy to me as the ksoftirqd could be in the progress to
> > stop
> > and we would miss another softirq invocation.
>
> Looking at smpboot_thread_fn(), it looks fine :
>

Additionally, we are talking about waking up
ksoftirqd on the same CPU.

That means the wakeup code could interrupt
ksoftirqd almost going to sleep, but the
two code paths could not run simultaneously.

That does narrow the scope considerably.

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