netdev - Re: NAPI: Polling function requesting extra calls - difference between 3.18.11 and 4.0.0

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:08:37 +0200
From:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: NAPI: Polling function requesting extra calls - difference
 between 3.18.11 and 4.0.0

On 23 April 2015 at 20:28, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 20:18 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>
>>
>> Can you help us with this, please? Does bgmac use NAPI incorrectly?
>> Were there some important changes in 3.19 or 4.0?
>>
>
> Right they were important changes in NAPI indeed :
>
> 3b47d30396ba net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer
> d75b1ade567f net: less interrupt masking in NAPI
> bc9ad166e38a net: introduce napi_schedule_irqoff()

As you obviously noticed, I fixed bgmac now and submitted the fix.

Just wanted to say a thanks for helping with that!

-- 
Rafał
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