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Re: On softints, softnet_lock and sleeping (aka ipv6 vs USB network interfaces)



On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 04:01:22PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> [...]
>    2) CPU 0 takes clock interrupt and nd6_timer expires.  nd6_timer starts and
>    tries to take softnet lock and blocks

a callout shout never sleep. When it does, this delays all other callouts.
I've already fixed deadlocks like this (the last one being related to
I2C).

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     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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