netdev - Re: NAPI complete race backport?

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:33:39 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAPI complete race backport?

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 16:25 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Eric, could you please give me a backport of commit:
> 
> ====================
> From 39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:34:50 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] net: solve a NAPI race
> ====================
> 
> for 4.10 and earlier?
> 
> This is before __napi_complete() is removed, so the empty poll list
> handling in napi_complete_done() needs to be a bit different.
> 
> Thanks!

Sure, I will send a patch by tomorrow I think.

Thanks.