On 20/04/16(Wed) 09:33, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > The current goal of the Network SMP effort is to have a single CPU > > process the IP forwarding path in a process context without holding > > the KERNEL_LOCK(). To achieve this goal we're progressively moving > > code from the softnet interrupt context to the if_input_task. In > > the end we'll completely get rid of this soft-interrupt. > > > > So now would be a good time to know if moving all the code currently > > run in a soft-interrupt context to a task uncovers any bug. I'm > > happily running the diff below on amd64 and macppc, it even gives me > > a small performance boost. > > > > I'd appreciate more tests especially on exotic archs. > > I've been running with this diff since you posted it on my home router. > I have not encountered any issues.
Thanks for testing. I'm still looking for reports on different architectures.
