netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: introduce napi_schedule

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQJVizFA_Tpf0FpyH0uoKZa4TMiBaNPmD_-5Z5+Vg+hV8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:17:39 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: introduce napi_schedule_irqoff()

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 18:17 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>
>> Interesting! Are you trying to optimize some of such NIC drivers? ;)
>
> ??
>
>> but all of 10G+ and virtio won't apply, right?
>
>
> Which 10G+ driver could not use this ?
>
> mlx4 patch would be :

right.
but it's not a critical path for napi drivers. Why bother?
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