Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 01:33 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

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> Yes, this looks more reasonable.  Eric if you agree please (re-)submit
> this formally, I must have missed this somehow, sorry.
> 
> And this is a bug fix in any kernel, not just one's that have RPS
> patches applied.
> 
> If we are not called from some interrupt context, there is no sure
> trigger to make sure software interrupts will be executed after the
> packet is queued locally.  netif_rx_ni() makes sure that any pending
> software interrupts will run in such cases.

Our mails crossed ;)

Yes I think it's more reasonable to fix it like this, I'll submit a
patch after fully testing it :)



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