From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] net: serialize hrtimer callback in sched_cbq Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090714.090124.216664038.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090709215606.526259917@linutronix.de> <20090712.135555.207096388.davem@davemloft.net> <4A5C402A.7090906@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org To: kaber@trash.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A5C402A.7090906@trash.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Patrick McHardy Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:02 +0200 > That's my understanding what HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ is used for. I think > simply grabbing the root lock in cbq_undelay() should be fine. > > Compile-tested only. Unfortunately, as Peter and Thomas explained, this is not the case.