Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 30 Sep 2001 11:37:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10. |
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kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote on 29.09.01 in <200109291635.UAA17377@ms2.inr.ac.ru>:
> Essentially, if we invent some real condition when softirq loop must be > stopped, we win. Now it is "stop after all events pending at start are > processed". OK, it is wrong. You propose: "10 rounds". It is even worse > because it is against plain logic. (pardon :-)).
The way I understand from this thread, the condition is *not* "10 rounds", it is "no more new softirqs are pending when we want to leave" - except it does a sort of emergency abort if 10 rounds weren't enough to get to that condition.
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