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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:19:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372180777.3301.109.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C9CF8B.6030502@freebox.fr>

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 19:12 +0200, Nicolas Schichan wrote:

> Am I right in thinking that the process spinning on SIOCGIFNAME should be 
> naturally be preempted by other tasks by the scheduler once its timeslice has 
> expired or am I missing something ?

It depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT settings.

If the kernel is not preemptable, we basically can loop forever, unless
we call cond_resched()

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-25 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <51C9BB9C.4050405@freebox.fr>
2013-06-25 16:15 ` freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 16:27   ` Nicolas Schichan
2013-06-25 16:57     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 17:05       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 17:12         ` Nicolas Schichan
2013-06-25 17:19           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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