8 Apr 2004 15:38
Re: route cache DoS testing and softirqs
<kuznet <at> ms2.inr.ac.ru>
2004-04-08 13:38:27 GMT
2004-04-08 13:38:27 GMT
Hello! > This sounds reasonable. However as a start I was thinking at having > hardirq run only the softirq they posted actively, and local_bh_enable > run only the softirq that have been posted by the critical section (not > from hardirqs happening on top of it). To all that I remember Ingo insisted that the run from local_bh_enable() is necessary for softirqs triggered by hardirqs while softirqs are disabled. Otherwise he observed random delays and redundant scheduler activity breaking at least tux fast path. Alexey
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