netdev - Re: [PATCH] team: add rescheduling jiffy delay on !rtnl

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Message-ID: <20141005161113.GA22223@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:11:13 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] team: add rescheduling jiffy delay on !rtnl_trylock

Hello, Paul, Joe.

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:08:55AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > I wasn't sure if cond_resched_rcu_qs will be backported, so how should
> > -stable handle this condition?
> 
> If it is needed to backport a fix, it can of course be backported.
> The various -stable maintainers also have the option of avoiding
> the need for a backport by expanding it inline.  I am happy to let
> them choose.  ;-)

Let's go for separate cond_resched + rcu_qs calls first and then apply
a separate patch to use cond_resched_rcu_qs() so that the first one
can be marked for -stable.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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