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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: use netif_receive_skb instead of netif_rx_ni
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:50:53 +0800
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On 02/12/2014 01:47 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 13:28 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>> A question: without NAPI weight, could this starve other net devices?
> Not really, as net devices are serviced by softirq handler.
>
>

Yes, then the issue is tun could be starved by other net devices.