netdev - Re: [PATCH] ehea: Remove sleep at .ndo_get

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Message-Id: <20110927.004709.1461629832092889464.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	brenohl@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: Remove sleep at .ndo_get_stats

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:28:55 +0200

> Le lundi 26 septembre 2011 à 17:11 -0300, brenohl@...ibm.com a écrit :
>> Currently ehea ndo_get_stats can sleep in two places, in a hcall
>> and in a GFP_KERNEL alloc, which is not correct.
>> This patch creates a delayed workqueue that grabs the information each 1
>> sec from the hardware, and place it into the device structure, so that,
>> .ndo_get_stats quickly returns the device structure statistics block.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <brenohl@...ibm.com>
>> ---
> 
> Seems good, thanks
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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