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

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:39:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] NET: [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue
 hardware support API

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:32:40 -0400

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

Seconded.

I'm perfectly happy to consider rearchitecting of netpoll to something
that works better.
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