netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v11 0/3] implement kthread based napi poll

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Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:34:08 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v11 0/3] implement kthread based napi poll

Hello,

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 11:34 -0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> The idea of moving the napi poll process out of softirq context to a
> kernel thread based context is not new.
> Paolo Abeni and Hannes Frederic Sowa have proposed patches to move napi
> poll to kthread back in 2016. And Felix Fietkau has also proposed
> patches of similar ideas to use workqueue to process napi poll just a
> few weeks ago.

I'd like to explicitly thank Wei and the reviewers for all the effort
done to get this merged!

Nice and huge work, kudos on you!

Thanks!

Paolo