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

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Message-ID: <87wnicb1ot.fsf@toke.dk>
Date:   Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:59:46 +0100
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dev: PREEMPT_RT fixups.

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks! I'll take a look :)

-Toke