From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:00:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:00:36 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:6787 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:00:29 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15152.8152.177595.177731@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:00:24 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Paul Mackerras , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: softirq in pre3 and all linux ports In-Reply-To: <20010620055413.A849@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010619210312.Z11631@athlon.random> <15152.6527.366544.713462@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20010620055413.A849@athlon.random> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrea Arcangeli writes: > I don't have gigabit ethernet so I cannot flood my boxes to death. > But I think it's real, and a softirq marking itself runnable again is > another case to handle without live lockups or starvation. I think (still) that you're just moving the problem around and not actually changing anything. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com