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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] NET: [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:37:25 +0200
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but there are users that don't go through qdiscs, like netpoll,
>> Having them check the QDISC_RUNNING bit seems ugly.
> 
> 
> Is netpoll the only such user?

I'm not sure, I just remembered that one :)

Looking at Peter's multiqueue patch, which should include all
hard_start_xmit users (I'm not seeing sch_teql though, Peter?)
the only other one is pktgen.

> netpoll tends to be a special case in every sense of the word, and I
> wish it was less so :/

Indeed.