netdev - Re: [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:38:19 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Qianfeng Zhang <frzhang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:28:17PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>
>> This allows us to do away with the npinfo juggling that caused
>> problem number 1.
>>
>> Incidentally this patch fixes number 2 by bypassing unsafe code
>> such as multicast snooping and netfilter.
>
> Not sure if I understand problem 2) and 3), this patch is not easy
> to review. So, what's the point of adding ->np to struct net_bridge_port?
> since we already have p->dev->npinfo->netpoll?

A netpoll_info structure always maps to one and only one net_device
structure.  While each net_device may have multiple netpoll
structures attached.

You must not share netpoll or netpoll_info structures between
devices since that breaks other users (netconsole or anything
else) from attaching to those devices.

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