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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: e1000_netpoll(): disable_irq() triggers might_sleep() on linux-next
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:51:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029205131.GI10501@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410292119350.5308@nanos>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:23:42PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> But at least it allows to mitigate the impact by making it conditional
> at a central point.
> 
> static inline void netpoll_lock(struct net_device *nd)
> {
> 	if (netpoll_active(nd))
> 		spin_lock(&nd->netpoll_lock);
> }

branch fail vs lock might be a toss on most machines, but if we're
hitting cold cachelines we loose big.

> and let the core code make sure that activation/deactivation of
> netpoll on a particular interface is serialized against the interrupt
> and netpoll calls.
> 
> Not sure if it's worth the trouble, but at least it allows to deal
> with it in the core instead of dealing with it on a per driver base.

Does multi-queue have one netdev per queue or does that need moar
logicz?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 15:56 e1000_netpoll(): disable_irq() triggers might_sleep() on linux-next Sabrina Dubroca
2014-10-29 18:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-29 18:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-29 19:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-29 19:40       ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-29 19:53         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-29 19:49       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-29 19:50         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-29 20:07           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-29 20:23             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-29 20:51               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-29 21:03                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-02 16:35       ` Sabrina Dubroca
2014-12-22 15:28         ` Bart Van Assche
2015-01-05 10:06         ` Bart Van Assche

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