Re: [PATCH net-next 15/24] net: Use nested-BH locking for XDP redirect.

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2024-01-17 18:04:47 [-0800], Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Oh, and I'm bringing it up here, because CONFIG_RT can throw
> in "need_resched()" into the napi_rx_has_budget(), obviously.

need_resched() does not work on PREEMPT_RT the way you think. This
context (the NAPI poll callback) is preemptible and (by default) runs at
SCHED_FIFO 50 (within a threaded IRQ) so a context switch can happen at
any time by a task with higher priority.
If threadA gets preempted and owns a lock that threadB, with higher
priority, wants then threadA will get back on CPU, inherit the priority
of the threadB and continue to run until it releases the lock.

If this is the per-CPU BH lock (which I want to remove) then it will
continue until all softirqs complete.

Sebastian