linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:20:22 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	alison@...oton-tech.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll_lock when doing polling

On 06/10/2016 06:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> It is true that in RT we don't have such a limit like in !RT. You would
>> need to use __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft() instead the normal or +
>> wakeup() since you may have timers pending and those need to go to the
>> "other" ksoftirqd.
>> But then I don't see much change. ksoftirqd runs now at SCHED_OTHER so
>> it will end up on the CPU right away unless there other tasks that need
>> the CPU. So the scheduler will balance it the same way. The only change
>> will be that softirqs which are processed in context of any application
>> for more than two jiffies will be moved to ksoftirqd. This could be a
>> win.
> 
> We actually triggered a starvation due to this. I was just seeing if
> Alison hit the same issue we did in our tests.

Okay. Didn't get this information from him. But this is only because
the softirqs not running in ksoftirqd, right?

> -- Steve
> 
Sebastian