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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:12:29 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: NAPI requires netif_receive_skb()

Hi

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, David Miller wrote:

> From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 03:03:10 +0400
> 
> > Driver supporting NAPI should use NAPI-specific function for receiving packets,
> > so netif_rx() should be changed to netif_receive_skb().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>

This patch breaks NFS boot on Armadillo800eva for me. Network 
communication slows down to a crawl with

net eth0: Receive FIFO Overflow
nfs: server 192.168.x.y not responding, still trying

With this patch reverted (e.g. in today's Linus tree snapshot) boot is 
restored.

Thanks
Guennadi

> Applied.

---
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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