[PATCH net-next] net: try to avoid unneeded backlog flush

2020-09-10 Thread Paolo Abeni
flush_all_backlogs() may cause deadlock on systems running processes with FIFO scheduling policy. The above is critical in -RT scenarios, where user-space specifically ensure no network activity is scheduled on the CPU running the mentioned FIFO process, but still get stuck. This commit tries to

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: try to avoid unneeded backlog flush

2020-09-10 Thread Paolo Abeni
Hi, On Thu, 2020-09-10 at 16:36 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:21 PM Paolo Abeni wrote: > > flush_all_backlogs() may cause deadlock on systems > > running processes with FIFO scheduling policy. > > > > The above is critical in -RT scenarios, where user-space > > specifica