netdev - Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:38:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	Matheos.Worku@....COM, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:22:34 +0800

> @@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ void __qdisc_run(struct net_device *dev)
>  	do {
>  		if (!qdisc_restart(dev))
>  			break;
> +		if (need_resched()) {
> +			netif_schedule(dev);
> +			break;
> +		}
>  	} while (!netif_queue_stopped(dev));
>  
>  	clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_QDISC_RUNNING, &dev->state);

This runs from softirqs, the local thread's scheduling
state is updated from timers which also run from softirqs,
so this need_resched() test won't work.

Probably you'll need something similar to the ->poll()
NAPI breakout logic, which uses 2 jiffies as the breakout
point.  (it uses 2, because we could be very close to
transitioning to the next jiffie and thus don't want
to breakout prematurely in that case)
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