Re: [PATCH][RT] netpoll: Always take poll_lock when doing polling

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 06/10/2016 06:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> It is true that in RT we don't have such a limit like in !RT. You would
>> need to use __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft() instead the normal or +
>> wakeup() since you may have timers pending and those need to go to the
>> "other" ksoftirqd.
>> But then I don't see much change. ksoftirqd runs now at SCHED_OTHER so
>> it will end up on the CPU right away unless there other tasks that need
>> the CPU. So the scheduler will balance it the same way. The only change
>> will be that softirqs which are processed in context of any application
>> for more than two jiffies will be moved to ksoftirqd. This could be a
>> win.
> 
> We actually triggered a starvation due to this. I was just seeing if
> Alison hit the same issue we did in our tests.

Okay. Didn't get this information from him. But this is only because
the softirqs not running in ksoftirqd, right?

> -- Steve
> 
Sebastian