From: "Chris Friesen" <cfrie...@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:25:54 -0600
> David Miller wrote: > >> You know, for networking over loopback (one of the only real cases >> that even matters, if we get a hard interrupt then the return from >> that would process any softints), we probably make out just fine >> anyways. As long as we hit a local_bh_enable() (and in the return >> path from device transmit that's exceedingly likely as all of the >> networking locking is BH safe) we'll run the softints from that and >> thus long before we get to syscall return. > > What about the issue I raised earlier? (I don't think you were copied > at that point.) I'm sure all of the networking experts on linuxppc-dev will have an answer. And yes that was sarcasm :-) You need to ask this on netdev or similar list. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev