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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi_struct V4
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:00:31 -0400
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:55:08 -0400
> 
>> I don't see any logic to your request, only added overhead for no reason.
> 
> There may be some flawed logic in what Stephen stated, but
> the change really is needed.
> 
> It must be atomic to execute the:
> 
> 	enable_interrupts();
> 	netif_rx_complete();
> 
> sequence wrt. the same code path in the interrupt handler.

Sure.  And how did the existing code fail to achieve that?

	Jeff