netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO

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Message-Id: <20090402.010801.243630133.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:20:20 -0700

> GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
> structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
> devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
> split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
> it is a different flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Looks good, applied.
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