Re: route cache DoS testing and softirqs

[kuznet]

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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