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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org"
	<intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ixgbe: check return value of napi_complete_done()
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:59:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6afa0d0-ba22-8205-076c-6a259a9f1b52@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71fd1305-17ad-2bdc-c123-9bc0ab37b0a4@fb.com>



On 09/21/2018 07:55 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> 
> should we remove ndo_poll_controller then?
> My understanding that the patch helps by not letting
> drivers do napi_schedule() for all queues into this_cpu, right?
> But most of the drivers do exactly that in their ndo_poll_controller
> implementations. Means most of the drivers will experience
> this nasty behavior.
> 

Some legacy drivers do not use NAPI yet, but provide ndo_poll_controller()

I believe users caring about system behavior with multi queue NIC are
all using NAPI enabled drivers, so this should be fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-20 19:01 [PATCH net] ixgbe: check return value of napi_complete_done() Song Liu
2018-09-20 20:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-09-20 21:01   ` Jeff Kirsher
2018-09-20 22:42     ` Song Liu
2018-09-20 23:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2018-09-20 23:43         ` Song Liu
2018-09-20 23:49           ` Eric Dumazet
2018-09-21  7:17             ` Song Liu
2018-09-21 13:33               ` Eric Dumazet
2018-09-21 14:55                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-09-21 14:59                   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-09-21 15:14                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-09-21 15:43                       ` Eric Dumazet

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