From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([58.251.152.64]:43154 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752751AbbFOD0I (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:26:08 -0400 Message-ID: <557E45BF.3090509@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:25:51 +0800 From: Zefan Li MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rui Xiang CC: Subject: Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies References: <1431584993-2856-1-git-send-email-rui.xiang@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <1431584993-2856-1-git-send-email-rui.xiang@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="GB2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: �� 2015/5/14 14:29, 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? > Queued up for 3.4, as 2.6.32 and 2.634 already did the backport.