kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote on 29.09.01 in <200109291635.UAA17377@ms2.inr.ac.ru>:
> Essentially, if we invent some real condition when softirq loop must be
> stopped, we win. Now it is "stop after all events pending at start are
> processed". OK, it is wrong. You propose: "10 rounds". It is even worse
> because it is against plain logic. (pardon :-)).
The way I understand from this thread, the condition is *not* "10 rounds",
it is "no more new softirqs are pending when we want to leave" - except it
does a sort of emergency abort if 10 rounds weren't enough to get to that
condition.
MfG Kai
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