From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Softirq priority inversion from "softirq: reduce latencies"
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:06:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457370390.3635.6.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DD9EE8.1010909@linutronix.de>
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 16:31 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 02/29/2016 05:58 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > WRT -rt: if dma tasklets really do have hard (ish) constraints, -rt
> > recently "broke" in the same way.. of all softirqs which are deferred
> > to kthread context, due to a recent change, only timer/hrtimer are
> > executed at realtime priority by default.
>
> no. All softirqs are invoked in the context of the current process that
> triggerd the softirq invocation. If NAPI goes on for too long (or other
> softirq can't be executed in this context) it will continue in the
> ksoftirqd. And this threads runs at a normal priority like it does in
> mainline.
> I adjusted it with mainline.
Yeah, that's what I said, the ksoftirqd case became the same in -rt.
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-07 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-27 18:19 Softirq priority inversion from "softirq: reduce latencies" Peter Hurley
2016-02-27 20:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-27 20:29 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-27 23:04 ` David Miller
2016-02-27 23:33 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-28 1:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-28 2:10 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-28 2:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-28 4:46 ` David Miller
2016-02-28 5:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-28 17:01 ` Francois Romieu
2016-02-29 4:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-29 15:03 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 15:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 15:54 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 16:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 18:05 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 18:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 18:53 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 19:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-29 20:24 ` David Miller
2016-02-29 23:04 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 15:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 19:13 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 19:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 15:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-29 15:58 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-29 16:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-29 17:16 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 15:31 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-03-07 17:06 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2016-03-07 15:48 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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