From: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>
To: <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <vbridger@opensource.altera.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll_list corruption
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:52:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150903.095257.116214212.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150902.112500.2176991714061589322.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:25:00 -0700, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> Two lines below this change you are disabling interrupts anyways,
> so I would suggest just moving the spin_lock_irqsave() before the
> napi_gro_flush() to fix this.
>
> Many of the checks done by napi_complete_done() (invoked by
> napi_complete()) are completely redundant in this context. For
> example, the direct __napi_complete() call is a really nice
> optimization because we know we are on the poll list and therefore
> it is not empty.
Thank you for your suggestion.
I think napi_gro_flush() can be called with irq enabled, so moving the
spin_lock_irqsave() just before the __napi_complete() (or moving the
__napi_complete() just after the spin_lock_irqsave()) would be better,
right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-02 8:49 [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll_list corruption Atsushi Nemoto
2015-09-02 18:25 ` David Miller
2015-09-03 0:52 ` Atsushi Nemoto [this message]
2015-09-03 2:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-09-03 5:32 ` David Miller
2015-09-03 6:01 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2015-09-03 22:35 ` David Miller
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