On Sun, 6 May 2018 09:16:26 -0700
Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Jacob S. Moroni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a stupid question regarding which variant of spin_lock to use
> > throughout the network stack, and inside RX handlers specifically.
> >
> > It's my underst
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Jacob S. Moroni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a stupid question regarding which variant of spin_lock to use
> throughout the network stack, and inside RX handlers specifically.
>
> It's my understanding that skbuffs are normally passed into the stack
> from soft IRQ co
Hello,
I have a stupid question regarding which variant of spin_lock to use
throughout the network stack, and inside RX handlers specifically.
It's my understanding that skbuffs are normally passed into the stack
from soft IRQ context if the device is using NAPI, and hard IRQ
context if it's not
