Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll_lock when doing polling
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2016-06-10 16:45:31
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:20:22 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [off-list ref] wrote:
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We actually triggered a starvation due to this. I was just seeing if Alison hit the same issue we did in our tests.Okay. Didn't get this information from him. But this is only because the softirqs not running in ksoftirqd, right?
Right, I think we supplied this patch before we added the one that would push repeated softirqs to ksoftirqd. We probably should see if that patch alone fixes our issue. -- Steve