netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll

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Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2015 22:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nemoto@...hiba-tops.co.jp
Cc:	vbridger@...nsource.altera.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll_list corruption

From: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@...hiba-tops.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:52:57 +0900

> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:25:00 -0700, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> Two lines below this change you are disabling interrupts anyways,
>> so I would suggest just moving the spin_lock_irqsave() before the
>> napi_gro_flush() to fix this.
>> 
>> Many of the checks done by napi_complete_done() (invoked by
>> napi_complete()) are completely redundant in this context.  For
>> example, the direct __napi_complete() call is a really nice
>> optimization because we know we are on the poll list and therefore
>> it is not empty.
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> 
> I think napi_gro_flush() can be called with irq enabled, so moving the
> spin_lock_irqsave() just before the __napi_complete() (or moving the
> __napi_complete() just after the spin_lock_irqsave()) would be better,
> right?

It should work, yes.
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