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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen network backend driver
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:31:41 +0000
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On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 19:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: 
> If NAPI doesn't work for netback, with or without RPS, maybe you have to
> use that kthread.  But please don't reinvent the wheel by creating your
> own tasklets or require users to set a special parameter.

Agreed, the tasklets really should have been deprecated in favour of the
kthread long ago anyway and I should definitely have thought to nuke
them as part of the preparation for upstreaming.

Hopefully NAPI can be made to work for this case anyway.

Ian.