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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: was Re: LLTX and netif_stop_queue
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:22:27 -0800
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:16:45 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> > Yes, that's the idea.
> 
> per CPU only works in preemptive kernel if you have preemption
> disabled all the time. Do you? 
> 
> Seems not likely to me.

BH is disabled in these code paths (specifically we're talking
about ->hard_start_xmit()), as that is where the recursion
check goes.

Otherwise, loopback's LLTX is broken as it relies on this property
as well.