netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Resurrect napi

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:51:52 +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 Sun, 2007-07-22 at 00:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Rusty, how does it look otherwise?

I like it.  For a start, the simplification of the NAPI api was long
overdue, and the damage done by separating the napi_struct is really
minimal.  Overall the tg3 driver just looks a little nicer now, and
that's sweet.

Unfortunately my complete ignorance of netpoll prevents me from making
sensible comment there.  This seems to have slipped in tho:

> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ static RAW_NOTIFIER_HEAD(netdev_chain);
>   *	Device drivers call our routines to queue packets here. We empty the
>   *	queue in the local softnet handler.
>   */
> -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct softnet_data, softnet_data) = { NULL };
> +
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct softnet_data, softnet_data) = { NULL, };
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
>  extern int netdev_sysfs_init(void);

ISTR that noone is using buggy compilers which required per-cpu
initializations now, so this can simply be dropped.

(The new scheduler code doesn't initialize per-cpu, so if this is a
problem it should be noticed).

Thanks!
Rusty.

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