netdev - Re: Receive processing stops when dev->poll returns 1

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Message-ID: <20100805091638.75c6328f@nehalam>
Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:16:38 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Usha Srinivasan <usha.srinivasan@...gic.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Receive processing stops when dev->poll returns 1

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:11:51 -0500
Usha Srinivasan <usha.srinivasan@...gic.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your response. What you said is exactly what my driver is doing:
> 
> 
> <= 2.6.23 
> Calls netif_rx_complete if done < budget; decrements quota & *budget by done; returns 0 if done < budget and 1 otherwise.
> 
> When 1 is returned, I encounter the problem I described)
> 
> > 2.6.23
> Calls napi-complete if done < budget; returns done.
> 
> When done==budget, I encounter the problem I described.
> 

Your driver did not call napi_complete (and re-enable interrupts).
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