On lun., 2016-02-29 at 07:58 -0800, Peter Hurley wrote: > All that's happened is the first loop of NET_RX softirq has woken a > process; that is sufficient to abort softirq and defer it for ksoftirqd. > > That's why I'm saying this is a priority inversion, and one that > will happen a lot. Sure. This will happen every time ksoftirqd is launched. Get rid of ksoftirqd or renice it so that you can easily be killed by softirq storm. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
