From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] split NAPI from network device.
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:01:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166126484.31351.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061213154635.1f284bf6@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:46 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Split off NAPI part from network device, this patch is build tested
> only! It breaks kernel API for network devices, and only three examples
> are fixed (skge, sky2, and tg3).
>
> 1. Decomposition allows different NAPI <-> network device
> Some hardware has N devices for one IRQ, others like MSI-X
> want multiple receive's for one device.
>
> 2. Cleanup locking with netpoll
>
> 3. Change poll callback arguements and semantics
>
> 4. Make softnet_data static (only in dev.c)
Thanks !
I'll give a go at adapting emac and maybe a few more when I get 5mn to
spare...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-14 20:01 UTC|newest]
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2006-12-13 23:46 ` [RFC] split NAPI from network device Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-14 20:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-21 5:31 ` David Miller
2007-02-21 7:39 ` Divy Le Ray
2007-02-21 7:47 ` David Miller
2007-02-21 23:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-22 11:18 ` David Miller
2007-02-22 12:24 ` Divy Le Ray
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