netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: handle non-napi callers to virtnet_poll

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Message-ID: <20201008120102.0167559c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 12:01:02 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: handle non-napi callers to
 virtnet_poll_tx

On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:34:36 -0700 Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> From: Jonathan Lemon <bsd@...com>
> 
> netcons will call napi_poll with a budget of 0, indicating
> a non-napi caller (and also called with irqs disabled).  Call
> free_old_xmit_skbs() with the is_napi parameter set correctly.

This is a fix, can we get a Fixes tag, please?