From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:37:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192520223.7205.5.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IhfZr-0002FE-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:06 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > Note: I use msleep_interruptible(1); just like napi_disable(). However
> > I'm not too happy that the "hot" loop that results of a pending signal
> > here will spin without even a cpu_relax ... what do you guys think would
> > be the best way to handle this ?
>
> Well since the loop does not check signals at all, it should
> just use msleep.
>
> Granted the process will end up in the D state and contribute
> to the load average. But if this loop executes long enough
> for that to be noticed then we've got bigger problems to worry
> about.
If Dave & Stephen agree, I'll send a patch changing napi_disable() too
then.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 5:49 [PATCH/RFC] net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16 6:06 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-16 7:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-10-16 7:44 ` David Miller
2007-10-16 18:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-16 21:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 2:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 2:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 3:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-17 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-17 21:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 22:04 ` [PATCH] net: Add napi_sycnhronize() " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 23:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-17 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 1:02 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-18 1:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 1:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17 23:14 ` [PATCH] fix EMAC driver for proper napi_synchronize API Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-18 0:21 ` Jeff Garzik
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2007-10-16 5:40 [PATCH/RFC] net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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