From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jmoyer@redhat.com
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: fix ->poll() locking
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:59:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050422155958.474a150c.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17001.33427.462497.856777@segfault.boston.redhat.com>
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:02:43 -0400
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Oh yes, of course. Somehow I managed to forget that we now squirrel away
> the struct netpoll pointer in the net_device. Previously you could
> register multiple netpoll clients to one device, and this was useful for
> say doing netconsole and netdump over the same interface. If we've removed
> this ability, this is a bad thing. Oh dear...
In such a configuration, how did the netpoll code "tell" who the
receive packets were for or did it send them to all registered
netpoll clients for that device?
Just curious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-22 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-03 20:46 [PATCH 0/7] netpoll: recursion fixes, queueing, and cleanups Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: shorten carrier detect timeout Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 2/7] netpoll: filter inlines Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: add netpoll point to net_device Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: fix ->poll() locking Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: add optional dropping and queueing support Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: handle xmit_lock recursion similarly Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 7/7] netpoll: avoid kfree_skb on packets with destructo Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 21:00 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-03 21:29 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-03 21:39 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-03 21:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:32 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-23 2:35 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-22 22:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: fix ->poll() locking Jeff Moyer
2005-04-22 22:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-22 23:02 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-04-22 22:59 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-04-23 2:14 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-23 5:12 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-06 0:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: shorten carrier detect timeout Patrick McHardy
2005-03-06 0:20 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-06 1:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-10 23:01 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-11 4:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-11 4:42 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-11 4:53 ` Patrick McHardy
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