Re: NAPI Race?

[kuznet]

Hello!

> interrupted for some other reason, the packet will get processed only at
> the next jiffie when the soft irq is invoked again.
> 
> Am I mistaken?

Yes, you are wrong. It is processed as soon as possible.


> As an aside, it looks also as though the design might technically allow
> the network driver to starve the CPU (the very situation NAPI was
> designed to protect against).

Nope. NAPI is not expected to cure starvation caused by softirqs.

Alexey
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