From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove netpoll receive code
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:02:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018000244.2513c564.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017.232838.41634977.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:28:38 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:21:31 -0700
>
> > I propose that we take out all the whole netpoll rx path. If/when
> > kgdb gets submitted a better and alternative receive path can be
> > added.
>
> I would like to kill the RX side handling of netpoll too,
> but I don't think that's reasonable as kgdb is actively
> being pushed for 2.6.25 inclusion.
>
> Andrew is likely to add it to his -mm tree soon and therefore kgdb
> will need to work properly now.
git-kgdb.patch has been in there for ages - maybe a year. Although I
disabled it a week or so ago due to the sheer number of rejects. Will
bring it back when things settle down a bit.
> The RX netpoll thing has a long precedence, it's been in the tree for
> a long time, so we are in some ways stuck with it until we have a
> complete replacement facility. That means we can't yank it out first
> and implement the replacement later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-17 20:21 [RFC] remove netpoll receive code Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-17 20:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 3:52 ` Jason Wessel
2007-10-18 6:28 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 7:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-18 15:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-22 16:54 ` Matt Mackall
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