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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] skge: add GRO support
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:31:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831183105.03b0f2bc@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283293956.2198.46.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:32:36 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> @@ -3193,7 +3192,7 @@ static int skge_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int to_do)
>  		unsigned long flags;
>  
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&hw->hw_lock, flags);
> -		__napi_complete(napi);
> +		napi_complete(napi);

This adds a redundant irq_save/irq_restore in the packet
receive path.

In the case of skge, since the both ports share a single
IRQ mask register, the lock is there to make sure that updates
to the mask register doesn't race between NAPI finishing
on one port and IRQ on other port changing same IRQ mask register.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 22:32 [PATCH net-next-2.6] skge: add GRO support Eric Dumazet
2010-09-01  1:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-09-01  4:25   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-01 17:58     ` David Miller

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