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Re: On softints, softnet_lock and sleeping (aka ipv6 vs USB network interfaces)



On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 04:01:22PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> 
> Aside: This is probably because ipintr gets scheduled on a specified
> target CPU, not on the local CPU, in pktq_enqueue...and apparently
> every caller, except for bridges, specifies CPU 0.

Huh.  This is either a concurrency-limiting bug in all the other code,
or a problem with the bridge code.  Which do you think it is?

Thor


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