netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Do not record sender_cpu as napi

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:57:28 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Do not record sender_cpu as napi_id
 in socket receive paths

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 19:40 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> What I probably can do is go through and replace all the spots where
> we where checking for sk_napi_id being 0, and instead replace it with
> a check against NR_CPUS.

This seems a good idea.