netdev - Re: [PATCH] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi

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Message-Id: <20071026.042341.177691569.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:23:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi_disable

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:10:32 -0400

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
> > (and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
> > hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
 ...
> ACK

Applied, thanks everyone.
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