Re: softirq in pre3 and all linux ports

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:00:24 -0700 (PDT)


Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> I don't have gigabit ethernet so I cannot flood my boxes to death.
> But I think it's real, and a softirq marking itself runnable again is
> another case to handle without live lockups or starvation.

I think (still) that you're just moving the problem around and
not actually changing anything.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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