Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
quoted text
> The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
> (and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
> hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/netdevice.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-work/include/linux/netdevice.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-work.orig/include/linux/netdevice.h	2007-10-17 12:39:16.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-work/include/linux/netdevice.h	2007-10-17 12:45:00.000000000 +1000
> @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static inline void napi_complete(struct 
>  static inline void napi_disable(struct napi_struct *n)
>  {
>  	while (test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state))
> -		msleep_interruptible(1);
> +		msleep(1);
>  }

ACK


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