netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Do Tx handling in a separate tasklet.

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Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vladz@...adcom.com
Cc:	eilong@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Do Tx handling in a separate tasklet.

From: "Vladislav Zolotarov" <vladz@...adcom.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:19:42 +0200

> This patch moves the 'Tx interrupt work' of each Tx queue from the hardIRQ
> context to the separate low-latency tasklet. Otherwise there is a possibility
> of a software lockup situation in a Tx softIRQ as it handles freeing all skb's
> 'freed' in (hard)IRQ context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Use NAPI, please...
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