From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
oliver@hartkopp.net, kalle.valo@iki.fi, linville@tuxdriver.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:10:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910012110.34216.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254422548.3959.24.camel@johannes.local>
On Thursday 01 October 2009 20:42:28 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:04 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:33:33 David Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not applying this until all of these details are sorted out
> >
> > John, please apply my fix to wireless-testing to get rid of the regression.
> > You can revert it later, if there's a better fix available.
>
> I agree with davem, don't. Just fix the driver to local_bh_disable()
> around the rx function if necessary.
For the benefit of a much bigger critical section? I don't get it why this would be any better.
I _am_ going to do one thing now, however. That is ignoring any regression bugreport.
(Yes, it _is_ a regression for b43)
--
Greetings, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 14:48 mac80211: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 Michael Buesch
2009-09-11 14:57 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-11 15:07 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-11 16:13 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-12 16:41 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-12 16:51 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-12 18:07 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-29 19:29 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-30 11:56 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 14:33 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-30 14:47 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-30 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-30 15:10 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-30 15:21 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-30 17:51 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 18:18 ` [PATCH] net: fix " Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 18:47 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-30 23:33 ` David Miller
2009-10-01 7:08 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-10-01 14:04 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-01 14:24 ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-01 18:42 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 19:10 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-10-01 19:26 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 19:32 ` David Miller
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