From: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:34 +1000
> David Miller writes: > >> I fully expected us to be, at this point, talking about putting the >> pending softirq check back into the trap return path :-/ > > Would that actually do any good, in the case where the system has > decided that ksoftirqd is handling soft irqs at the moment? Even if ksoftirqd is running, we check and run pending softirqs from trap return. Sure, I imagine we could re-enter this "ksoftirq blocked by highprio thread" situation if we get flooded every single time over and over again. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
