netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/2] Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:30:11 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

To the best of understanding processing any received packets when the
napi budget == 0 is broken driver behavior.  At the same time I don't
think we have ever cared before so there are a handful of drivers that
need fixes.

I care now as I will shortly be using htis in netpoll to get the
tx queue processing without the rx queue processing.

Drivers that need fixes are few and far between, and so far I have only
found two of them.  More similar patches later if I find more drivers
that need fixes.

Eric W. Biederman (2):
      bnx2: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0
      8139cp: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c  |    3 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c |    5 +----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Eric
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