netdev - Re: pkt_sched: Control group classifier

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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:54:31 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pkt_sched: Control group classifier

* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 2008-10-27 17:05
> Sorry I had to revert this:
> 
> 1) It can't work as a tristate option, the control group subsystem
>    framework doesn't work with modular enables.

Right, I'll fix this. Thank you.

> 2) There was still a discussion going on about the hardirq/softirq
>    tracing bits.  They seem unnecessary.

I don't see how looking at the number of nested bh disable calls can
be used to reliably determine if a code segment is run in softirq. The
method fails if a dev_queue_xmit() caller running in softirq context
doesn't disable bh explicitly but instead relies on the fact that bh
must already have been disabled as per bh context definition.
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