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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 22:16:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BC51B4.4010703@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2835410139848be8811403e3d7fa708@BY2PR03MB299.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

Am 08.07.2014 22:03, schrieb KY Srinivasan:
> The VCPU the channel is bound to is available in the channel state. You could use the following code
> Fragment to ensure that the call is made on the "right" cpu:
> 
> smp_call_function_single(dev->channel->target_cpu,
>                                          netvsc_channel_cb, dev->channel, true);

This won't work as netpoll runs with IRQs disabled.
->ndo_poll_controller() has to make sure that SKBs can be received and transmitted
while IRQs are off. I thought calling the channel callback by hand would be enough
to receive SKBs.

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-08 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-08  9:32 [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08 17:55 ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-07-08 18:40   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08 18:51     ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-07-08 18:01 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-08 18:39   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08 20:03     ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-08 20:16       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2014-07-08 22:47         ` Francois Romieu
2014-07-08 22:53           ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08 23:43             ` Francois Romieu
2014-07-09  7:59               ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-08 23:08           ` Richard Weinberger

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