netdev - Re: NAPI: Polling function requesting extra calls - difference between 3.18.11 and 4.0.0

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:28:52 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: NAPI: Polling function requesting extra calls - difference
 between 3.18.11 and 4.0.0

On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 20:18 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> 
> Can you help us with this, please? Does bgmac use NAPI incorrectly?
> Were there some important changes in 3.19 or 4.0?
> 

Right they were important changes in NAPI indeed :

3b47d30396ba net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer
d75b1ade567f net: less interrupt masking in NAPI
bc9ad166e38a net: introduce napi_schedule_irqoff()

This requested some fixes in various drivers :

commit f31ec95fa19e07a8beebcc0297284f23aa57967e
commit 24e579c8898aa641ede3149234906982290934e5
commit 6088beef3f7517717bd21d90b379714dd0837079
commit f104fedc0da126abe93dd0f4a9fa13e5133bf9df
commit 7a05dc64e2e4c611d89007b125b20c0d2a4d31a5
commit 001ce546bb537bb5b7821f05633556a0c9787e32
commit 3079c652141f9d6377417a7e8fd650c9948df65e
commit 8acdf999accfd95093db17f33a58429a38782060
commit 6a6dc08ff6395f58be3ee568cb970ea956f16819


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