netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13617] New: GRO:__napi_complete from net_rx

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Message-ID: <20090627033353.GA20458@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:33:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, amit.salecha@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13617] New: GRO:__napi_complete from
	net_rx_action crash

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 07:28:04PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> I remembered that change where we had to disable GRO in the
> legacy RX path and all the IRQ disabling problems we ran into
> there.  So I went and had a look at that to make sure we won't
> have similar issues here, luckily it seems not.

Yeah the netpoll lock is all we need since netpoll is the only
other thing that can race against this.

Thanks,
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