From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xiaosuo@gmail.com, therbert@google.com, eparis@redhat.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: avahi-daemon: caller is netif_rx
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:29:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271327342.16881.2355.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100415.020246.218622820.davem@davemloft.net>
Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 02:02 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> Since we keep coming back to this issue why don't we simply
> solve it forever? Let's make netif_rx() work in all contexts
> and get rid of netif_rx_ni().
>
> I think this is the thing to do because this whole netif_rx_ni()
> vs. netif_rx() thing was meant to be an optimization of sorts (this
> goes back to like 8+ years ago :-), and really I doubt it really
> matters on that level any more.
>
> What do you think?
I was about to come to same idea indeed.
netif_receive_skb() is supposed to be used for modern devices anyway,
avoiding netif_rx() overhead...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 19:20 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: avahi-daemon: caller is netif_rx Eric Paris
2010-04-12 19:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-12 20:54 ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-13 7:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 7:14 ` David Miller
2010-04-15 7:30 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15 7:37 ` David Miller
2010-04-15 7:47 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15 7:57 ` David Miller
2010-04-15 8:27 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15 8:33 ` David Miller
2010-04-15 8:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 8:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 9:02 ` David Miller
2010-04-15 10:29 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-04-15 13:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 19:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 19:13 ` [PATCH] ip: Fix ip_dev_loopback_xmit() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15 21:26 ` David Miller
2010-04-16 0:03 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-16 0:15 ` David Miller
2010-04-16 0:19 ` Changli Gao
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