On 4/29/16 2:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:

AFAIK, nothing in current TCP stack absolutely wants BH
being disabled once socket is owned by a thread running in
process context.

As mentioned in my prior patch ("tcp: give prequeue mode some care"),
processing a batch of packets might take time, better not block BH
at all.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet<edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh<redacted>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>