Re: NAPI and shared interrupt control

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 02:22 -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:20:10AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > It also just occured to me that even if you use the dummy device
> > approach, it's the dummy device's quota that will be used by the
> > generic ->poll() downcall into the driver.
> 
> Yes, that's true. That's why I made this parameter 
> Konfig-configurable. Yes, this is not as flexible as run-time 
> configuration available for a real netdev, but better than nothing and 
> nobody has complained yet :)

Can we maybe change the dummy device weight as emacs get added to a
MAL ?

Dave, the main point of my initial email was: should we provide a
routine from the net core to initialize such dummy devices properly ?
I'm a little worried that some day, the NAPI code will change and the
initialisations done by the driver will not be enough anymore...

Cheers,
Ben.