netdev - Re: NAPI and ->poll()

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Message-ID: <m31w24asmb.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:00:44 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAPI and ->poll()

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> So, as you can see, if you consume the entire budget, your
> caller assumes that it still owns the NAPI context and it is
> still scheduled.  Otherwise, if less than the budget is consumed,
> you must netif_rx_complete().

Great. Thanks for the detailed info, David.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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