napi_busy_loop() disables preemption and performs a NAPI poll. We can't acquire
sleeping locks with disabled preemption which would be required while
__napi_poll() invokes the callback of the driver.
A threaded interrupt performing the NAPI-poll can be preempted on PREEMPT_RT.
A RT thread on another CPU may observe NAPIF_STATE_SCHED bit set and busy-spin
until it is cleared or its spin time runs out. Given it is the task with the
highest priority it will never observe the NEED_RESCHED bit set.
In this case the time is better spent by simply sleeping.
The NET_RX_BUSY_POLL is disabled by default (the system wide sysctls for
poll/read are set to zero). Disabling NET_RX_BUSY_POLL on PREEMPT_RT to avoid
wrong locking context in case it is used.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
net/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index fb13460c6dab3..074472dfa94ae 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ config CGROUP_NET_CLASSID
config NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
bool
- default y
+ default y if !PREEMPT_RT
config BQL
bool
--
2.33.0