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

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Don't receive packets when the napi
 budget == 0

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:30:11 -0700

> To the best of understanding processing any received packets when the
> napi budget == 0 is broken driver behavior.  At the same time I don't
> think we have ever cared before so there are a handful of drivers that
> need fixes.
> 
> I care now as I will shortly be using htis in netpoll to get the
> tx queue processing without the rx queue processing.
> 
> Drivers that need fixes are few and far between, and so far I have only
> found two of them.  More similar patches later if I find more drivers
> that need fixes.

Series applied, thanks Eric.
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