Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

Hello!

> But with a huge overhead. I'd prefer to call it directly from within the
> idle functions, the overhead of schedule is IMHO too high.

+	if (current->need_resched) {
+		return 0;
		^^^^^^^^
+	}
+	if (softirq_active(smp_processor_id()) & softirq_mask(smp_processor_id())) {
+		do_softirq();
+		return 0;
		^^^^^^^^^
You return one value in both casesand I decided it means "schedule". 8)
Apparently you meaned return 1 in the first case. 8)

But in this case it becomes wrong. do_softirq() can raise need_reshed
and moreover irqs arrive during it. Order of check should be different.

BTW what's about overhead... I suspect it is _lower_ in the case
of schedule(). In the case of networking at least, when softirq
most likely wakes some socket.

Alexey