Hi Eric and Paolo, Back in May you discovered (IMHO) a serious bug in softirq. It even got covered by LWN.net[1]. I've looked at the most recent git tree (linus and net-next), and cannot see any changes that fixes this. What is the progress in this area?
LWN.net: "Threadable NAPI polling, softirqs, and proper fixes" [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/687617/ Eric's proposed fix: http://lwn.net/Articles/687631/ -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer