From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jmoyer@redhat.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: fix ->poll() locking
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:14:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050423021440.GZ21897@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050422155958.474a150c.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:59:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 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...
Hrm, it appears I forgot about that when I did the recent rework.
> 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?
It walked a global list of clients.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-23 2:14 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
2005-04-23 2:14 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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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