netdev - Have the fix for softirq landed???

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Message-ID: <20160829083657.6111c558@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:36:57 +0200
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     brouer@...hat.com,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Have the fix for softirq landed???

Hi Eric and Paolo,

Back in May you discovered (IMHO) a serious bug in softirq.  It even got
covered by LWN.net[1]. I've looked at the most recent git tree (linus
and net-next), and cannot see any changes that fixes this.
What is the progress in this area?

LWN.net: "Threadable NAPI polling, softirqs, and proper fixes"
 [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/687617/

Eric's proposed fix: http://lwn.net/Articles/687631/

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer