Re: [PATCH] net: Handle threadirqs in __napi_schedule_irqoff

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Sep 13 2024 - 12:14:58 EST


On 2024-09-13 11:09:54 [-0400], Sean Anderson wrote:
> The threadirqs kernel parameter can be used to force threaded IRQs even
> on non-PREEMPT_RT kernels. Use force_irqthreads to determine if we can
> skip disabling local interrupts. This defaults to false on regular
> kernels, and is always true on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Is this fixing a behaviour or is this from the clean up/ make it pretty
category?
The forced-threaded interrupts run with disabled interrupts on !RT so
this change should not fix anything.

> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxxx>

Sebastian