Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-09 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >> Your patch considers TASKLET_SOFTIRQ being a candidate for 'immediate >> handling', but TCP Small queues heavily use TASKLET, >> so as far as I am concerned a revert would have the s

Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Your patch considers TASKLET_SOFTIRQ being a candidate for 'immediate > handling', but TCP Small queues heavily use TASKLET, > so as far as I am concerned a revert would have the same effect. Does it actually? TCP ends up dropping packets o

Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-09 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >> So yes, commit 4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job") has >> shown up multiple times in various 'regressions' >> simply because it could surface the problem more often. >>

Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > So yes, commit 4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job") has > shown up multiple times in various 'regressions' > simply because it could surface the problem more often. > But even if you revert it, you can still make the faulty > dr

Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-09 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Josef Griebichler wrote: > Hi Linus, > > your patch works very good for me and others (please see > https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switched-to-kernel-4-9-x/?postID=77006#post77006). > No errors in recordings any more. > The patch was als

Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-08 Thread Jesper Dangaard Brouer
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 12:35:08 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Josef Griebichler wrote: > > > No I can't sorry. There's no sat connection near to my workstation. > > Can we ask the person who made this post: > https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switc

Re: Aw: Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Josef Griebichler wrote: > No I can't sorry. There's no sat connection near to my workstation. Can we ask the person who made this post: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switched-to-kernel-4-9-x/?postID=75965#post75965 to run the test? The post says

Aw: Re: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

2018-01-08 Thread Josef Griebichler
No I can't sorry. There's no sat connection near to my workstation.     Gesendet: Montag, 08. Januar 2018 um 17:31 Uhr Von: "Alan Stern" An: "Josef Griebichler" Cc: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , linux-...@vger.kernel.org, "Eric Dumazet" , "Rik van Riel" , "Paolo Abeni" , "H