From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
mhuth@mvista.com, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: trapping fix/cleanup
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:30:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46130DD6.6050707@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703302340.27343.sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in
> the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with
> short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue).
> Make this option more sensible by only bypassing TX softirq wakeup and remove
> CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX option completely since there is *no* code depending on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
ACK but (a) DaveM not me should apply this, and (b) I would check with
netpoll people to see what that define is there for.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 19:40 [PATCH] netpoll: trapping fix/cleanup Sergei Shtylyov
2007-04-04 2:30 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-04-04 13:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-04-05 3:26 ` Tom Rini
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