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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, bob.picco@oracle.com,
	dwight.engen@oracle.com, raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 RFC net-next 1/4] sunvnet: NAPIfy sunvnet
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:22:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141015172204.GF11840@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543EAC34.1010502@oracle.com>

On (10/15/14 13:17), David L Stevens wrote:
> > -static void maybe_tx_wakeup(unsigned long param)
> > +static void maybe_tx_wakeup(struct vnet *vp)
> >  {
> > -	struct vnet *vp = (struct vnet *)param;
> >  	struct net_device *dev = vp->dev;
> >  
> >  	netif_tx_lock(dev);
> 
> Isn't this a function type conflict for tasklet_init()?

maybe_tx_wakeup is not a tasklet any more. That was one of the
big benefits of going NAPI, as David Miller pointed out- we
are already in NAPI context, so the original reason (deadlock
with dev_watchdog) does not exist any more.

I'm working on adding the rest of your comments about
removing comments and making an int into a bool.

--Sowmini

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-15 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-15 16:42 [PATCHv3 RFC net-next 1/4] sunvnet: NAPIfy sunvnet Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-15 17:17 ` David L Stevens
2014-10-15 17:22   ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]

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