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From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: NAPI requires netif_receive_skb()
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:12:29 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1309261751200.11968@axis700.grange> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130904.141252.532474080722830977.davem@davemloft.net>

Hi

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, David Miller wrote:

> From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 03:03:10 +0400
> 
> > Driver supporting NAPI should use NAPI-specific function for receiving packets,
> > so netif_rx() should be changed to netif_receive_skb().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>

This patch breaks NFS boot on Armadillo800eva for me. Network 
communication slows down to a crawl with

net eth0: Receive FIFO Overflow
nfs: server 192.168.x.y not responding, still trying

With this patch reverted (e.g. in today's Linus tree snapshot) boot is 
restored.

Thanks
Guennadi

> Applied.

---
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-02 23:03 [PATCH] sh_eth: NAPI requires netif_receive_skb() Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-04 18:12 ` David Miller
2013-09-26 16:12   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski [this message]
2013-09-26 16:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-08 21:52     ` Sergei Shtylyov

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