netdev - Re: [PATCH,net-next,1/2] tun: enable NAPI for TUN/TAP driver

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Message-ID: <1505875888.29839.80.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:51:28 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Petar Penkov <peterpenkov96@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        ppenkov@...nford.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH,net-next,1/2] tun: enable NAPI for TUN/TAP driver

On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 00:34 -0700, Petar Penkov wrote:
> Changes TUN driver to use napi_gro_receive() upon receiving packets
> rather than netif_rx_ni(). Adds flag CONFIG_TUN_NAPI that enables
> these changes and operation is not affected if the flag is disabled.
> SKBs are constructed upon packet arrival and are queued to be
> processed later.
> 

> 
> Signed-off-by: Petar Penkov <peterpenkov96@...il.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net
> Cc: ppenkov@...nford.edu
> ---

Very nice, thanks a lot Petar.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>