Re: [RFC] netpoll: Is it ok to share a single napi from several devs ?

Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-30T20:12:48Z

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:59:16 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> So everybody jumped on GRO, while my concern was more the napi->dev
> thing.
>
> I pointed to gro because the commit was about gro, but gro was fine
> IMHO.
>
> Are we sure netpoll is ok ?

Netpoll is dependent on napi->netdev but does not cause problems.
The sky2 driver doesn't expose netpoll on second port.
The second port has different net_device_ops without netpoll.

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