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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netpoll: Is it ok to share a single napi from several
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:19:09 +0200
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Le lundi 30 ao=C3=BBt 2010 =C3=A0 13:12 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a =C3=A9=
crit :
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:59:16 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > So everybody jumped on GRO, while my concern was more the napi->dev
> > thing.
> >=20
> > I pointed to gro because the commit was about gro, but gro was fine
> > IMHO.
> >=20
> > Are we sure netpoll is ok ?
>=20
> Netpoll is dependent on napi->netdev but does not cause problems.
> The sky2 driver doesn't expose netpoll on second port.
> The second port has different net_device_ops without netpoll.
>=20
>=20

Ah, great, thanks for clarification.