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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: bug in virtio network driver?
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:06:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708211706.29676.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187687377.19435.176.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > One solution would be to use the xmit_done interrupt. Unfortunately this would 
> > require additional locking as multiple interrupts can happen at two or more 
> > cpus. Do you have any better ideas?
> 
> The only reason that we don't do it in skb_xmit_done() is because
> kfree_skb() isn't supposed to be called from an interrupt.  But there's
> dev_kfree_skb_any() which can be used.

That will simply trigger a softirq, right? If you need the softirq anyway,
why not do all the tx handling in the poll() method like other drivers?

	Arnd <><

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200708211048.33534.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2007-08-21  9:09 ` bug in virtio network driver? Rusty Russell
     [not found] ` <1187687377.19435.176.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-08-21 15:06   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-08-22  3:08     ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-21 16:02   ` Christian Borntraeger
     [not found]   ` <200708211802.04103.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2007-08-29 21:07     ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]     ` <1188421640.5531.141.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-08-30 11:28       ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-08-21  8:48 Christian Borntraeger

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