On Mon, 27 May 2019 09:47:54 +0800 Yunsheng Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> When user has configured a large number of virtual netdev, such > as 4K vlans, the carrier on/off operation of the real netdev > will also cause it's virtual netdev's link state to be processed > in linkwatch. Currently, the processing is done in a work queue, > which may cause worker starvation problem for other work queue. > > This patch releases the cpu when link watch worker has processed > a fixed number of netdev' link watch event, and schedule the > work queue again when there is still link watch event remaining. > > Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <[email protected]> Why not put link watch in its own workqueue so it is scheduled separately from the system workqueue?

