Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:56:49 +0100 | From | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/2] softirq: Defer net rx/tx processing to ksoftirqd context |
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On 2018-01-17 17:24:47 [-0500], David Miller wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:02:43 -0800 > > There is also the netif_rx_ni() stuff. > > > > Can't remember right now why it is not using > > local_bh_{diable,enable}() pair instead > > of preempt_disable() ... if (local_softirq_pending()) do_softirq(); > > Hmmm, that code predates the initial GIT repository build. > > I do remember we had some back and forth with that stuff.
So I did a little research and tried to replace preempt_disable() with local_bh_disable() [0] a while ago.
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170616172400.10809-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Sebastian
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