netdev - Re: irq_fpu_usable() is false in ndo_start

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Message-Id: <20151116.153214.1125103075112383723.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:32:14 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Jason@...c4.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: irq_fpu_usable() is false in ndo_start_xmit() for UDP packets

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:52:28 +0100

> This works fine with, say, iperf3 in TCP mode. The AVX performance
> is great. However, when using iperf3 in UDP mode, irq_fpu_usable()
> is mostly false! I added a dump_stack() call to see why, except
> nothing looks strange; the initial call in the stack trace is
> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath. Why would irq_fpu_usable() return false
> when we're in a syscall? Doesn't that mean this is in process
> context?

Network device driver transmit executes with software interrupts
disabled.

Therefore on x86, you cannot use the FPU.
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