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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:35:30 +0100 From: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@...vell.com> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Bhaskar Upadhaya <bupadhaya@...vell.com> CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com> Subject: Re: [EXT] 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. Hi Jakub, Thanks for the hint, we were not aware of that. I see our driver may not handle zero budget accordingly. Will check. But then, all this means .ndo_poll_controller is basically deprecated? Regards, Igor
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