netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dev: PREEMPT

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Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:14:47 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
        <toke@...e.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dev: PREEMPT_RT fixups.

On Wed,  2 Feb 2022 13:28:44 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this series removes or replaces preempt_disable() and local_irq_save()
> sections which are problematic on PREEMPT_RT.
> Patch 3 makes netif_rx() work from any context after I found suggestions
> for it in an old thread. Should that work, then the context-specific
> variants could be removed.

Let's CC Toke, lest it escapes his attention.