Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:Linux 2.6.29)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:39:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [PATCH] net: Fix netpoll lockup in legacy receive path
> 
> Actually, this patch is still racy.  If some interrupt comes in
> and we suddenly get the maximum amount of backlog we can still
> hang when we call __napi_complete incorrectly.  It's unlikely
> but we certainly shouldn't allow that.  Here's a better version.
> 
> net: Fix netpoll lockup in legacy receive path

ok - i'm testing with this now.

	Ingo
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