From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, robert.olsson@its.uu.se, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: possible bug in net/core/pktgen.c (2.6.10 kernel)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:41:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050118124100.17b7f47a.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501180935.25419.dsp@llnl.gov>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:35:25 -0800
Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 January 2005 04:46 am, Robert Olsson wrote:
> > Dave Peterson writes:
> > > I found a piece of code that looks problematic in the 2.6.10 kernel.
> > > The following code appears starting on line 746 in function inject()
> > > of net/core/pktgen.c:
> > > schedule();
> > > else
> > > do_softirq();
> >
> > Thanks!
> > So it should be?
>
> Cool! Looks like a fix to me.
I'm still a little bit confused on this one.
Since when does do_softirq() need preemption disabled
around calls to it?
do_softirq() disabled hard IRQs during the duration of it's
execution, thus effectively disabling preemption.
What is the problematic case again?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-18 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-14 19:29 possible bug in net/core/pktgen.c (2.6.10 kernel) Dave Peterson
2005-01-16 12:46 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-18 17:35 ` Dave Peterson
2005-01-18 20:41 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-01-18 21:46 ` Dave Peterson
2005-01-18 21:50 ` David S. Miller
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