Re: [PATCH 2/3] softirq: avoid spurious stalls due to need_resched()

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:25:35 -0800 Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Just to be sure - have you seen Peter's patches?
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git core/softirq
> > 
> > I think it feeds the time limit to the callback from softirq,
> > so the local 3ms is no more?  
> 
> I might or might not have back in September of 2020.  ;-)
> 
> But either way, the question remains:  Should RCU_SOFTIRQ do time checking
> in ksoftirqd context?  Seems like the answer should be "yes", independently
> of Peter's patches.

:-o  I didn't notice, I thought that's from Dec 22, LWN was writing
about Peter's rework at that point. I'm not sure what the story is :(
And when / if any of these changes are coming downstream.