linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: poll/select low latency socket support

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:00:41 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Cody P Schafer <devel-lists@...yps.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: poll/select low latency socket support

On 28/06/2013 03:29, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 05:25 PM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>> On 06/24/2013 12:28 AM, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>>> select/poll busy-poll support.
>>> ...
>>
>> I'm seeing warnings about using smp_processor_id() while preemptable
>> (log included below) due to this patch. I expect the use of
>> ll_end_time() -> sched_clock() here is triggering this.
>>
>> Apologies if this has already been noted.
>
> To be clear, given how sched_time() is used here the BUG appears
> invalid, but we need a way to mark this as OK for the smp_processor_id()
> checks so we don't get BUG spam.
>
Thanks for reporting this.

-Eliezer
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