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

Eric Dumazet
2010-08-30T20:19:14Z

Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 13:12 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> 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.
>
>

Ah, great, thanks for clarification.