netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] 8139cp: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:08:10 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] 8139cp: Don't receive packets when the
 napi budget == 0

On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 14:31 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Processing any incoming packets with a with a napi budget of 0
> is incorrect driver behavior.
> 
> This matters as netpoll will shortly call drivers with a budget of 0
> to avoid receive packet processing happening in hard irq context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c |    5 +----
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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