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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2008-03-28 19:25:26 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-03-28 19:25:26 -0400
commit2ba2506ca7ca62c56edaa334b0fe61eb5eab6ab0 (patch)
tree0a1b1f7046eff42e2323334b656543efdf85d38a /CREDITS
parent32aced7509cb20ef3ec67c9b56f5b55c41dd4f8d (diff)
[NET]: Add preemption point in qdisc_run
The qdisc_run loop is currently unbounded and runs entirely in a softirq. This is bad as it may create an unbounded softirq run. This patch fixes this by calling need_resched and breaking out if necessary. It also adds a break out if the jiffies value changes since that would indicate we've been transmitting for too long which starves other softirqs. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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