On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 21:49 +0530, Rakesh Pillai wrote: > We do have the usage of napi_gro_receive and netif_receive_skb in mac80211. > /* deliver to local stack */ > if (rx->napi) > napi_gro_receive(rx->napi, skb); > else > netif_receive_skb(skb); > > > Also all the rx_handlers are called under the " rx->local->rx_path_lock" lock. > Is the BH disable still required ? I tend to think so, but you're welcome to show that it's not. The lock serves a different purpose. TBH, I don't have all of this in my head at all times either, so please do your own work and analyse why it may or may not be necessary. But without any such analysis I'm not going to take patches that change it. johannes