From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: Have the fix for softirq landed??? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:36:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20160829083657.6111c558@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: brouer@redhat.com, Hannes Frederic Sowa , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55600 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbcH2GhC (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2016 02:37:02 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Eric and Paolo, Back in May you discovered (IMHO) a serious bug in softirq. It even got covered by LWN.net[1]. I've looked at the most recent git tree (linus and net-next), and cannot see any changes that fixes this. What is the progress in this area? LWN.net: "Threadable NAPI polling, softirqs, and proper fixes" [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/687617/ Eric's proposed fix: http://lwn.net/Articles/687631/ -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer