public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	grant.likely@linaro.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about netif_rx
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:12:50 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1308111811440.2072@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130811155640.GA10070@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Francois Romieu wrote:

> Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> :
> > To my limited understanding, in a NAPI polling function, one should use 
> > netif_receive_skb, rather than netif_rx.
> 
> Nit: or napi_gro_receive (+ napi_gro_flush with __napi_complete) when the
> device offers some checksum offloading features.

OK, thanks for the information.  I am just trying to understand these 
functions...

> > However, the via-velocity driver defines the NAPI polling function
> > velocity_poll, which is the only caller of velocity_rx_srv, which
> > is the only caller of velocity_receive_frame, which calls netif_rx.
> > The call to netif_rx seems to predate the introduction of NAPI in
> > this driver.  Is this correct?
> 
> You are right. It's a leftover of the NAPI changes in this driver.
> 
> Can you send a netif_receive_skb replacement patch for it ?

Just to be sure, I just replace netif_rx by netif_receive_skb, nothing
else?

thanks,
julia

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-11 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-11  9:56 question about netif_rx Julia Lawall
2013-08-11 15:56 ` Francois Romieu
2013-08-11 16:12   ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2013-08-13  5:20     ` Francois Romieu
2013-08-13  5:45       ` David Shwatrz
2013-08-13  6:28         ` Francois Romieu
2013-08-13  6:29       ` Julia Lawall
2013-08-13  6:53         ` David Shwatrz
2013-08-13 20:41           ` Francois Romieu
2013-08-14 10:44             ` Rami Rosen
2013-08-14 15:18               ` Julia Lawall

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.02.1308111811440.2072@localhost6.localdomain6 \
    --to=julia.lawall@lip6.fr \
    --cc=devicetree@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=grant.likely@linaro.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rob.herring@calxeda.com \
    --cc=romieu@fr.zoreil.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox