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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:27:13 -0500 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] netpoll: trapping fix/cleanup On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:44:00PM +0400, 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. You've got two unrelated patches here, so that's an automatic NAK. I suppose we can kill the config option. What did you test the NETPOLL_TRAP test with? -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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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