Re: softirq in pre3 and all linux ports

[David S. Miller]

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
 > I don't have gigabit ethernet so I cannot flood my boxes to death.
 > But I think it's real, and a softirq marking itself runnable again is
 > another case to handle without live lockups or starvation.

I think (still) that you're just moving the problem around and
not actually changing anything.

Later,
David S. Miller
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