netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] qede: add netpoll support for qede driver

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Message-ID: <20210116182607.01f26f15@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:26:07 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Bhaskar Upadhaya <bupadhaya@...vell.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <aelior@...vell.com>,
        <irusskikh@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  net-next 1/3] qede: add netpoll support for qede driver

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:06:08 -0800 Bhaskar Upadhaya wrote:
> Add net poll controller support to transmit kernel printks
> over UDP

Why do you need this patch? Couple years back netpoll was taught 
how to pull NAPIs by itself, and all you do is schedule NAPIs.

All the driver should do is to make sure that when napi is called 
with budget of 0 it only processes Tx completions, not Rx traffic.