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

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQJ0XD6YmUi_MBpoEgkScxp2ictQepY2YqtvfbXzF=voZQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:17:35 -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 6:05 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> napi_schedule() can be called from any context and has to mask hard
> irqs.
>
> Add a variant that can only be called from hard interrupts handlers
> or when irqs are already masked.
>
> Many NIC drivers can use it from their hard IRQ handler instead of
> generic variant.

Interesting! Are you trying to optimize some of such NIC drivers? ;)
but all of 10G+ and virtio won't apply, right?
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