• Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar
    net: Don't disable interrupts in napi_alloc_frag() · 7ba7aeab
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
    netdev_alloc_frag() can be used from any context and is used by NAPI
    and non-NAPI drivers. Non-NAPI drivers use it in interrupt context
    and NAPI drivers use it during initial allocation (->ndo_open() or
    ->ndo_change_mtu()). Some NAPI drivers share the same function for the
    initial allocation and the allocation in their NAPI callback.
    
    The interrupts are disabled in order to ensure locked access from every
    context to `netdev_alloc_cache'.
    
    Let netdev_alloc_frag() check if interrupts are disabled. If they are,
    use `netdev_alloc_cache' otherwise disable BH and invoke
    __napi_alloc_frag() for the allocation. The IRQ check is cheaper
    compared to disabling & enabling interrupts and memory allocation with
    disabled interrupts does not work on -RT.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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