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Subject: Re: [PATCH] softirq: Avoid stack switch from ksoftirqd
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:10:48 +0100 (CET)

> ksoftirqd() calls do_softirq() which switches stacks on several
> architectures. That makes no sense at all. ksoftirqd's stack is
> sufficient.
> 
> Call __do_softirq() directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>