netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: pxa168_eth: add netconsole support

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:20:39 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     amonakov@...ras.ru
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk,
        sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com, f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pxa168_eth: add netconsole support

From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:05:47 +0300 (MSK)

> And is this a matter of efficiency (not calling napi_schedule when there's
> nothing to do and not keeping interrupts enabled for its duration), or also
> a matter of correctness?

If you don't mask interrupts properly around scheduling and finishing
NAPI poll, you can lose events so it is a matter of correctness.