Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-28 23:25:54
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-28 23:25:54
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:29:28 +0800
[NET]: Add preemption point in qdisc_run The qdisc_run loop is currently unbounded and runs entirely in a softirq. This is bad as it may create an unbounded softirq run. This patch fixes this by calling need_resched and breaking out if necessary. It also adds a break out if the jiffies value changes since that would indicate we've been transmitting for too long which starves other softirqs. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, and I'll queue this up for -stable, thanks!