From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
gotzoncabanes@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAPI of many interfaces with just an interruption source
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:19:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235251162.8805.212.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090221131251.GA28821@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Ben has just done exactly the same thing for his driver so he
> can tell you all about it and how to use his generic function :)
Right, you can look how it's done in ibm_newemac. There's basically
a "dummy" netdev which is created to handle the NAPI on behalf of
the real ones. The new core function init_dummy_netdev() will set
up that dummy netdev for you.
If you look at how I do it in emac, the actual ports "register"
internally with that "mal" module so that I can "poll" them when
the main NAPI is polled.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-21 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 18:33 NAPI of many interfaces with just an interruption source Miguel Ángel Álvarez
2009-02-20 18:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-21 13:12 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-21 18:15 ` Miguel Ángel Álvarez
2009-02-21 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-02-23 9:21 ` Miguel Ángel Álvarez
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