netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] net: flush the softnet backlog in process context

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:45:39 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: flush the softnet backlog in process context


On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Currently in process_backlog(), the process_queue dequeuing is
> performed with local IRQ disabled, to protect against
> flush_backlog(), which runs in hard IRQ context.

Thanks guys, patch looks fine to me.