netdev - Re: [PATCH RFX]: napi

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:21:43 +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, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFX]: napi_struct V3

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 22:47 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I don't think it's wise to implement this over and over again in each
> driver, since we already know at least a handfull of drivers will use
> this.

Yep.  Alternative is a napi_struct_with_restart, but I don't think it's
worth the few-byte savings per queue.

> Any objections?

On the contrary, this looks good.

Thanks!
Rusty.

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