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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.

  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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