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Message-ID: <20101019202941.GE7497@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:29:41 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	fubar@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net, andy@...yhouse.net,
	amwang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: minor cleanups to bond + netpoll

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 01:04:24PM -0400, nhorman@...driver.com wrote:
> Testing that was onging when the the reset patchset to enable netpoll over
> bonding revealed some minor corner cases that are worth correcting.  In summary:
> 
> 1) Remove netpoll tx blocking from bond_release_all.  Its not needed and causes
> some uglyness when removing the bonding module, in the form of a backtrace that
> gets logged.  blocking isn't needed in this path anyway as the netconsole is
> already unregistered from us at this point
> 
> 2) Remove my changes to napi_poll.  Closer inspection of the bonding
> poll_controller show that we wind up recursively calling the napi poll routines
> for the slaves through sucsessive calls to netpoll_poll_dev.  My origional
> change is harmless, but its not really needed, so lets make the code simpler.
> 
> Further details available in the individual commit messages
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> 

I've done some quick testing with these and they address the concerns I
raised with Neil about his first patch-set.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

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