netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/15] ehea: Remove force_irq logic in napi poll routine

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 03:47:36 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, michael@...erman.id.au,
	jesse@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] ehea: Remove force_irq logic in napi poll routine

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:52 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> commit 18604c548545 (ehea: NAPI multi queue TX/RX path for SMP) added
> driver specific logic for exiting napi mode. I'm not sure what it was
> trying to solve and it should be up to the network stack to decide when
> we are done polling so remove it.
[...]

I don't know.  But I'd really like to know why you are calling
napi_reschedule() and napi_complete() in a loop, inside the poll
function.

Ben.

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