netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/7] tcp: do not block bh during prequeue processing

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:47:34 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/7] tcp: do not block bh during prequeue
 processing

On 4/29/16 2:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> AFAIK, nothing in current TCP stack absolutely wants BH
> being disabled once socket is owned by a thread running in
> process context.
>
> As mentioned in my prior patch ("tcp: give prequeue mode some care"),
> processing a batch of packets might take time, better not block BH
> at all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet<edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh<soheil@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>