netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi

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Message-ID: <1551EAE59135BE47B544934E30FC4FC002AAB9F7@nt-irva-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:39:18 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	hadi@...erus.ca, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi_struct V4

David Miller wrote:

> As a result there is no more messing around with fake NAPI polls and
> all that other crap, instead ->poll_controller() merely has to try to
> process TX queue acks to free up space and wake up the transmit
> queue(s) of the device.
> 

I think we also need to take care of link change interrupts as well.

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