Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:59:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438462773.3225.44.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431584993-2856-1-git-send-email-rui.xiang@huawei.com>

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On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 14:29 +0800, Rui Xiang wrote:
> Hi Zefan,
> 
> c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a
> softirq: reduce latencies
> 
> This commit can reduce softirq latencies in some various network workloads.
> 
> 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214
> Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck in __do_softirq.
> 
> The commit 34376a50fb1f fix a bug introduced by commit c10d73671ad3
> (softirq: reduce latencies).
> 
> They look applicable to stable-3.4, but need some adjustments to backport.
> The following patches are the backports.
> 
> What do you think?

As these have been applied to both 2.6.32 and 3.4 I've queued them up
for 3.2 as well.  Thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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