netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] NAPI ID fixups related to busy polling

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] NAPI ID fixups related to busy polling

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:48:41 -0700

> These two patches are a couple of minor clean-ups related to busy polling.
> The first one addresses the fact that we were trying to busy poll on
> sender_cpu values instead of true NAPI IDs.  The second addresses the fact
> that there were a few paths where TCP sockets were being instanciated based
> on a received patcket, but not recording the hash or NAPI ID of the packet
> that was used to instanciate them.

I'm expecting a respin of this.  Patch #1 appears to be 'net' material, and
Eric asked for some other minor tweaks as well.

Thanks.