From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, michael@ellerman.id.au,
jesse@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] ehea: Remove force_irq logic in napi poll routine
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 03:47:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305168456.4065.378.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110512005622.766206152@samba.org>
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:52 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> commit 18604c548545 (ehea: NAPI multi queue TX/RX path for SMP) added
> driver specific logic for exiting napi mode. I'm not sure what it was
> trying to solve and it should be up to the network stack to decide when
> we are done polling so remove it.
[...]
I don't know. But I'd really like to know why you are calling
napi_reschedule() and napi_complete() in a loop, inside the poll
function.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-12 0:52 [PATCH 00/15] ehea updates v2 Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 01/15] ehea: Remove NETIF_F_LLTX Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 02/15] ehea: Update multiqueue support Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 2:31 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 2:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 03/15] ehea: Remove force_irq logic in napi poll routine Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 2:31 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 3:06 ` David Miller
2011-05-12 2:47 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-05-24 3:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 04/15] ehea: Remove num_tx_qps module option Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 05/15] ehea: Dont check NETIF_F_TSO in TX path Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 06/15] ehea: Add vlan_features Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 07/15] ehea: Allocate large enough skbs to avoid partial cacheline DMA writes Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 2:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 08/15] ehea: Simplify ehea_xmit2 and ehea_xmit3 Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 09/15] ehea: Merge swqe2 TSO and non TSO paths Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 10/15] ehea: Simplify type 3 transmit routine Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 11/15] ehea: Remove some unused definitions Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 12/15] ehea: Add 64bit statistics Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 13/15] ehea: Remove LRO support Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 14/15] ehea: Add GRO support Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 6:03 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-12 0:52 ` [PATCH 15/15] ehea: Remove unused tcp_end field in send WQ Anton Blanchard
2011-05-12 2:31 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 3:06 ` David Miller
2011-05-12 3:12 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-31 1:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-14 15:30 EHEA updates Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2011-10-14 15:31 ` [PATCH 03/15] ehea: Remove force_irq logic in napi poll routine Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
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