From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Use dev_kfree_skb_any() in bnx2_tx_int() Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:40:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20131030.024003.1476890051483056287.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1383084998-22673-1-git-send-email-tdmackey@booleanhaiku.com> <20131029.224227.1700872646112764527.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tdmackey@booleanhaiku.com, mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Cong Wang Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:50:08 -0700 > Normally ->poll() is called in softirq context, while netpoll could > be called in any context depending on its caller. It still makes amends to make the execution context still looks "compatible" as far as locking et al. is concerned.