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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] IB/hfi1: Handle packets in the theaded handler only
    On 2017-10-03 12:49:20 [-0300], Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
    > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    >
    > The hfi1 driver calls request_threaded_irq with two parameters:
    >
    > handler = receive_context_interrupt;
    > thread = receive_context_thread;
    > request_threaded_irq(me->msix.vector, handler, thread, 0, me->name, arg);
    >
    > And tries to process packets on the hard irq one, receive_context_interrupt(),
    > only waking up the thread (returning IRQ_WAKE_THREAD) when some threshold is
    > crossed in the number of packets available in the NIC, trying to balance
    > latency and bandwidth.
    >
    > But in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL kernel it ends up calling spin locks from the
    > hard irq handler (receive_context_interrupt) which causes BUGs like this:

    If I am not mistaken current devel-tree of RT (and a few releases before
    that) handle that case correctly and force-thread both threads.

    Sebastian

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