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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] nfp: flower: prioritize stats updates
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:10:00 -0500 (EST)
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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:54:08 -0800

> From: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com>
> 
> Previously it was possible to interrupt processing stats updates because
> they were handled in a work queue. Interrupting the stats updates could
> lead to a situation where we backup the control message queue. This patch
> moves the stats update processing out of the work queue to be processed as
> soon as hardware sends a request.
> 
> Reported-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@netronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

Applied, thanks Jakub.

Just a reminder that it really makes things more difficult that one
can't just go:

	make drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.o

to test a specific NFP object build like one can with pretty much the
rest of the entire kernel tree.