netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] NET: [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API

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Message-ID: <46840DF5.7010204@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:37:25 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] NET: [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware
 support API

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but there are users that don't go through qdiscs, like netpoll,
>> Having them check the QDISC_RUNNING bit seems ugly.
> 
> 
> Is netpoll the only such user?

I'm not sure, I just remembered that one :)

Looking at Peter's multiqueue patch, which should include all
hard_start_xmit users (I'm not seeing sch_teql though, Peter?)
the only other one is pktgen.

> netpoll tends to be a special case in every sense of the word, and I
> wish it was less so :/

Indeed.
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