Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-12-31

Re: [PATCH net] netlink: call cond_resched after broadcasting updates

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2014-12-31 23:38:40

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 09:54:33 -0800
When a netlink event is posted to a socket, the receiving process maybe
waiting to wakeup. Reduce the latency by calling cond_resched() in this
loop. This reduces the problems with missed events during a netlink
storm such as when a routing daemon does mass update in response to
a link transition.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
As mentioned by others, this is potentially invoked from software
interrupts generating netlink events (one example is ipv6) so we
can't try to conditionally sleep here.
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