On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:47:27PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:25:03 -0800 > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:16 AM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> So this "get requeued" condition I think will trigger always for > >> networking tunnel decapsulation. > > > > Hmm. Interesting and a perhaps bit discouraging. > > > > Will it always be just a _single_ level of indirection, or will double > > tunnels (I assume some people do that, just because the universe is > > out to get us) then result in this perhaps repeating several times? > > Every level of tunnel encapsulation will trigger a new softirq. > > So if you have an IP tunnel inside of an IP tunnel that will trigger > twice.
So we may likely need to come back to a call counter based limit :-s
