netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq

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Message-Id: <1254422548.3959.24.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:42:28 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, oliver@...tkopp.net,
	kalle.valo@....fi, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:04 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:33:33 David Miller wrote:
> 
> > I'm not applying this until all of these details are sorted out 
> 
> John, please apply my fix to wireless-testing to get rid of the regression.
> You can revert it later, if there's a better fix available.

I agree with davem, don't. Just fix the driver to local_bh_disable()
around the rx function if necessary.

johannes

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