Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll_lock when doing polling

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



* Steven Rostedt | 2016-05-26 19:56:41 [-0400]:

>For example:
>
>   <interrupt thread (as all interrupts on RT are threaded>
>
>   napi_schedule_prep()
>        test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state)
>
>   <preempted by higher prio task that runs softirqs in its context>
>
>   sk_busy_loop()
>
>      do {
>           rc = busy_poll()
>               ret = napi_schedule_prep()
>                    return !test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state)
>                     <returns zero because NAPI_STATE_SCHED is set>
>               if (!ret) return 0
>           <rc is zero>
>      } while (...) /* for ever */
>

No, I don't see the busyloop. while() is here:
|    while (!nonblock && skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_receive_queue) &&
|                  !need_resched() && !busy_loop_timeout(end_time));

and this seems to be the case since v3.11 where it was introduced (but
now it moved to dev.c). So even if there is no busy_poll() and
napi_schedule_prep() returns 0 our cycles here are limited by
busy_loop_timeout().

Sebastian
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [RT Stable]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux