Re: [PATCH] softirq: Avoid stack switch from ksoftirqd

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Feb 02 2011 - 16:51:12 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:10:48 +0100 (CET)

> ksoftirqd() calls do_softirq() which switches stacks on several
> architectures. That makes no sense at all. ksoftirqd's stack is
> sufficient.
>
> Call __do_softirq() directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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