netdev - Re: Information about napi_struct and net

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Message-ID: <1351378943.30380.332.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:02:23 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Javier Domingo <javierdo1@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Information about napi_struct and net_device

On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 20:22 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:

> Not all drivers use napi_gro_receive/napi_gro_flush.
> 

Yes, note that I only mentioned "grep napi", not these specific verbs

Also, napi_gro_receive() could be used now GRO doesnt mandate hardware
checksums.

> It could be worth comparing with drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c (small)
> or drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c (bigger).

Unfortunately tg3.c uses internal stuff sith napi substring, so I
ignored it :

$ grep napi drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | wc -l
376



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