Subject: Have the fix for softirq landed???

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:36:57 +0200

Hi Eric and Paolo,

Back in May you discovered (IMHO) a serious bug in softirq.  It even got
covered by LWN.net[1]. I've looked at the most recent git tree (linus
and net-next), and cannot see any changes that fixes this.
What is the progress in this area?

LWN.net: "Threadable NAPI polling, softirqs, and proper fixes"
 [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/687617/

Eric's proposed fix: http://lwn.net/Articles/687631/

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer