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Date:   Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:02:19 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Remove __napi_schedule_irqoff?
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:57:53 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > Dunno how acceptable this is to run in an IRQ handler on RT..
>  
> If I understand this code right then it's not a loop that actually
> waits for something. It just retries if the value of n->state has
> changed in between. So I don't think we'll ever see the loop being
> executed more than twice.

Right, but WCET = inf. IDK if that's acceptable.