netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bnx2: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

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Message-ID: <1394600855.21721.41.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:07:35 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bnx2: Don't receive packets when the napi
 budget == 0

On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 14:31 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Processing any incoming packets with a with a napi budget of 0
> is incorrect driver behavior.
> 
> This matters as netpoll will shortly call drivers with a budget of 0
> to avoid receive packet processing happening in hard irq context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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