netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Resurrect napi

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Message-Id: <1185002071.6344.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:14:31 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Resurrect napi_poll patch.

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 22:31 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Stephen asked me if I could resurrect the last version of
> his napi_poll patch that I posted a long time ago, I finally
> got to that tonight.
> 
> Basically, this disconnects the ->poll() object from the net
> device.  This will allow drivers to handle multi RX queues
> cleanly without creating fake net_device objects and crap
> like that.

Hi Dave,

	This looks good!  It might be nice though to go further and remove the
internal napi_struct.  It's kind of a wart for multi-queue drivers which
are going to have their own array (or whatever).

But I can do that as a separate patch if you think it's a decent idea.
The name "NAPI" is also a wart, but I guess it's everywhere now so one
more place isn't making things worse...

Cheers,
Rusty.


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