netdev - Re: [PATCH] xen network backend driver

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:31:41 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen network backend driver

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 19:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: 
> If NAPI doesn't work for netback, with or without RPS, maybe you have to
> use that kthread.  But please don't reinvent the wheel by creating your
> own tasklets or require users to set a special parameter.

Agreed, the tasklets really should have been deprecated in favour of the
kthread long ago anyway and I should definitely have thought to nuke
them as part of the preparation for upstreaming.

Hopefully NAPI can be made to work for this case anyway.

Ian.

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