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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:26:46 -0700 From: Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, mhuth@...sta.com, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] netpoll: trapping fix/cleanup On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:30:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in > > the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with > > short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue). > > Make this option more sensible by only bypassing TX softirq wakeup and remove > > CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX option completely since there is *no* code depending on it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com> > > ACK but (a) DaveM not me should apply this, and (b) I would check with > netpoll people to see what that define is there for. In terms of KGDB usage, I know Sergei has been trying to track down and fix some issues (/make it more reliable) so if this does impact us I know he'll be sending something along. ACK. -- Tom Rini - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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