Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:45:25 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll_lock when doing polling |
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:20:22 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > We actually triggered a starvation due to this. I was just seeing if > > Alison hit the same issue we did in our tests. > > Okay. Didn't get this information from him. But this is only because > the softirqs not running in ksoftirqd, right?
Right, I think we supplied this patch before we added the one that would push repeated softirqs to ksoftirqd. We probably should see if that patch alone fixes our issue.
-- Steve
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