From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mitov@issp.bas.bg
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]skge napi->poll() locking bug
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:19:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323.031943.23771660.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803231020.10030.mitov@issp.bas.bg>
From: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:20:09 +0200
Please send networking things at least CC:'d to netdev
as many networking developers do not subscribe to
linux-kernel
> According to: Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt:
>
> <cite>
> napi->poll:
> ..........
> Context: softirq
> will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
> </cite>
>
> napi->poll() could be called either with interrupts enabled
> (in softirq context) or disabled (by netconsole), so the irq flag
> should be preserved.
>
> Inspired by Ingo's resent forcedeth patch :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Marin Mitov
>
> Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 10:19 UTC|newest]
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2008-03-23 8:20 Marin Mitov
2008-03-23 10:19 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-26 3:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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