netdev - Re: tun: Use netif_receive_skb instead of netif

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 10:18:09 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tun: Use netif_receive_skb instead of netif_rx

Le mercredi 19 mai 2010 à 10:09 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Another concern I have is about RPS.
> 
> netif_receive_skb() must be called from process_backlog() context, or
> there is no guarantee the IPI will be sent if this skb is enqueued for
> another cpu.

Hmm, I just checked again, and this is wrong.

In case we enqueue skb on a remote cpu backlog, we also
do __raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ); so the IPI will be done
later.



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