netdev - Re: [RFC] gro: Is it ok to share a single napi from several devs ?

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Message-Id: <20100829.100653.70199372.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] gro: Is it ok to share a single napi from several devs ?

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:59:51 +0200

> Actually, when GRO compares napi->dev to skb->dev?

Hmmm, I thought the code made a skb->dev comparison with the
existing SKBs in the list when checking for same-flow matches.

It doesn't, probably based upon the assumption that a NAPI
instance maps to a unique device, the very topic we're
discussing right now :-/


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