netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi

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Message-ID: <adamyxdpbzg.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:01:55 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, hadi@...erus.ca, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi_struct V4

 > It is not a feature of these changes.

 > These races exist in the current code, it is a bug fix.

Not sure I follow.  What is the race in the current code?  Are you
saying that netif_rx_reschedule() itself is racy?  Otherwise the code
in ipoib looks OK to me.

 - R.
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