netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] notifier: Fix soft lockup for notifier_call

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jul 2016 07:12:24 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Cc:	luto@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] notifier: Fix soft lockup for notifier_call_chain().

On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 11:06 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:

> I debug this problem, and found that the __fib6_clean_all() would not
> hold the cpu more than 1 second event though there
> is a lot of ipv6 address to deal with, but the notifier_chian would
> call the ipv6 notifier several times and hold the cpu
> for a long time, so add cond_resched() in the addrconf_ifdown could
> solve the problem correctly, I think your first solution
> is the good way to fix this bug.

I am traveling these days, so please send an official patch once you've
tested it, thanks !