From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: question about softirqs Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:34 +1000 Message-ID: <18954.22390.754419.803434@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20090512081237.GA16403@elte.hu> <1242119578.11251.321.camel@twins> <20090512092348.GA29796@elte.hu> <20090512.214427.193728136.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, cfriesen@nortel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.25]:59030 "EHLO bilbo.ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbZEMFPj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 01:15:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090512.214427.193728136.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller writes: > I fully expected us to be, at this point, talking about putting the > pending softirq check back into the trap return path :-/ Would that actually do any good, in the case where the system has decided that ksoftirqd is handling soft irqs at the moment? Paul. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org (bilbo.ozlabs.org [203.10.76.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "bilbo.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37F35DDFC0 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:40 +1000 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <18954.22390.754419.803434@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:34 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: David Miller Subject: Re: question about softirqs In-Reply-To: <20090512.214427.193728136.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090512081237.GA16403@elte.hu> <1242119578.11251.321.camel@twins> <20090512092348.GA29796@elte.hu> <20090512.214427.193728136.davem@davemloft.net> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David Miller writes: > I fully expected us to be, at this point, talking about putting the > pending softirq check back into the trap return path :-/ Would that actually do any good, in the case where the system has decided that ksoftirqd is handling soft irqs at the moment? Paul.