Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Avoid context switch during TCP errno reporting

[Felix]

From: Jim Ursetto <address@hidden>
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid context switch during TCP errno reporting
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:06:03 -0500

> Here's a full patch to avoid context switches screwing up the error message
> reported to the user, and also consolidates much of the error handling.
> 
> I think this patch is sufficient because the only actual issue, as I 
> understand
> it, is that under high load you will occasionally get an incorrect error 
> message
> (typically, "operation in progress") instead of the real error message;
> an exception will still fire regardless.  Disabling interrupts instead is 
> probably
> overkill, unless you know that won't cause hangs.
> 
> Also the patch doesn't do any harm and cleans up the code a bit, so you
> can still apply a different fix on top of it.

Applied. Thanks.


cheers,
felix