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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop_monitor: dont sleep in atomic context
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:05:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338804341.2760.1792.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338801163.2760.1786.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 11:12 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> drop_monitor calls several sleeping functions while in atomic context.
>   [<ffffffff816be6d0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
> 

> Rework the logic to call the sleeping functions in right context.
> 
> Also avoid a loop if reset_per_cpu_data() cannot allocate memory :
> use mod_timer() to wait 1/10 second before next try.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> ---

I'll send a v2, please ignore this one

      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04  9:12 [PATCH] drop_monitor: dont sleep in atomic context Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 10:05 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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