netdev - Re: NAPI and shared interrupt control

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Message-ID: <20061207102257.GC19479@gate.ebshome.net>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:22:57 -0800
From:	Eugene Surovegin <ebs@...home.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAPI and shared interrupt control

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:20:10AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> It also just occured to me that even if you use the dummy device
> approach, it's the dummy device's quota that will be used by the
> generic ->poll() downcall into the driver.

Yes, that's true. That's why I made this parameter 
Konfig-configurable. Yes, this is not as flexible as run-time 
configuration available for a real netdev, but better than nothing and 
nobody has complained yet :)

-- 
Eugene

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