From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:19:39 +0000 (+0100) Subject: plip: use netif_rx_ni() for packet receive X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc4~98 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6ce5cca74b8681fdf1d7307edc66a7213b43f6f;p=pandora-kernel.git plip: use netif_rx_ni() for packet receive netif_rx is meant to be called from interrupts because it doesn't wake up ksoftirqd. For calling from outside interrupts, netif_rx_ni exists. This fixes plip to use netif_rx_ni. It fixes the infamous error "NOHZ: local_softirq_panding 08" that happens on some machines with NOHZ and plip --- it is caused by the fact that softirq is pending and ksoftirqd is sleeping. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed