Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Don't call _irqoff() with hardirqs enabled

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:54:06 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> I'm thinking about a __napi_schedule version that disables hard irq's
> conditionally, based on variable force_irqthreads, exported by the irq
> subsystem. This would allow to behave correctly with threadirqs set,
> whilst not loosing the _irqoff benefit with threadirqs unset.
> Let me come up with a proposal.

I think you'd need to make napi_schedule_irqoff() behave like that,
right?  Are there any uses of napi_schedule_irqoff() that are disabling
irqs and not just running from an irq handler?