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On 10/16/2018 04:08 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> I had started doing that about a month ago in light of the ixbge
> ndo_poll_controller vs. napi problem, but have not had time to submit
> that series yet:
> 
> https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/napi-check
> 
> feel free to piggy back on top of that series if you would like to
> address this.


But the root cause was different, you remember ?

We fixed the real issue with netpoll ability to stick all NIC IRQ onto one
victim CPU.