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> > the priority of the softirq daemon or ensure that it is always awoken 
> when a
> > netif_rx is called?
>
>You should suppound it with local_bh_disable()/enable(), when using
>from process context.
Actually he should call netif_rx_ni() instead of netif_rx().
_ni stands for non-interrupt context.

Max

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