On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 07:41 +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > netif_rx_ni() disables preemption. > > You wrote earlier: > > > [...] the networking layer needs to have > > packets handed to it with softirqs disabled. > > How disabling preemption can fix something which needs softirqs > disabled? Could you be more precise? No, I wrote that I didn't know. I suppose now that I looked at it I do know, and only disabling preemption is required. johannes
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