From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:19:12 +1000 Message-ID: <1192670352.12879.2.camel@pasglop> References: <1192513792.19073.23.camel@pasglop> <20071016115318.0fc36af3@freepuppy.rosehill> <1192589522.11899.130.camel@pasglop> <47157EA4.1000500@garzik.org> <1192591481.11899.134.camel@pasglop> <20071017083107.6a1b1bd3@freepuppy.rosehill> <1192658654.6783.43.camel@pasglop> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Roland Dreier , linuxppc-dev list To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:52175 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759303AbXJRBTa (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:19:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1192658654.6783.43.camel@pasglop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > This implements a low level __napi_synchronize() function to acheive > that. The underscores are to emphasis the low level aspect of it and > to discourage driver writers who don't know what they are doing to > use it (to please DaveM :-) And I forgot to remove that bit from the description... as pointed out by Josh. Grrr... Ben.