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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>,
	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mac80211: fix "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08"
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:37:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291045056.3532.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101129152735.GA32319@sig21.net>

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:27 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> > That's kinda pointless though for drivers that already call it from a
> > tasklet or similar -- how about instead adding an
> > ieee80211_tx_status_ni() inline along the lines of ieee80211_rx_ni()?
> 
> It gets confusing...
> There already is ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(), but you want a third
> option, right?

Yes: _irqsafe has to go through the tasklet, _ni just has to disable
local BHs.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 14:54 [PATCH RFC] mac80211: fix "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08" Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-29 15:09 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-29 15:27   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-29 15:37     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-11-29 15:51       ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-29 15:58         ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-29 16:13           ` [PATCH v3 RFC] mac80211: add ieee80211_tx_status_ni() Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-30 15:49             ` [PATCH v4] mac80211/rt2x00: " Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-30 15:53               ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-30 16:34                 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-11-30 16:35                   ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-30 18:38                     ` John W. Linville

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