From 0cc3a548845bcbce230bb6bdffe993635c3cf54f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:04:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] net: rps: fix cpu unplug [ Upstream commit ac64da0b83d82abe62f78b3d0e21cca31aea24fa ] softnet_data.input_pkt_queue is protected by a spinlock that we must hold when transferring packets from victim queue to an active one. This is because other cpus could still be trying to enqueue packets into victim queue. A second problem is that when we transfert the NAPI poll_list from victim to current cpu, we absolutely need to special case the percpu backlog, because we do not want to add complex locking to protect process_queue : Only owner cpu is allowed to manipulate it, unless cpu is offline. Based on initial patch from Prasad Sodagudi & Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan. This version is better because we do not slow down packet processing, only make migration safer. Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed