Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue May 10 2016 - 17:53:43 EST


On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 17:35 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:

> You might need another one of these in invoke_softirq()
>

Excellent.

I gave it a quick try (without your suggestion), and host seems to
survive a stress test.

Of course we do have to fix these problems :

[ 147.781629] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.785546] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.788344] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.788992] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.790943] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.791232] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 24a
[ 147.791258] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.791366] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.792118] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48
[ 147.793428] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 48

Thanks.