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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netpoll: Is it ok to share a single napi from several
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:12:46 -0700
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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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