Thread (288 messages) 288 messages, 13 authors, 2014-04-01

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] netpoll: Don't poll for received packets

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-11 12:44:26

On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 01:45 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
When calling drivers napi poll function pass it a budget of 0, to
request that no rx packets be processed, and warn if any rx packets
are actually processed.

Additionally remove the drop_mon tracepoint as nothing interesting
should be happening in netpoll, and running an arbitrary tracepoint
in irq context is probably a bad idea.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
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 net/core/netpoll.c |   28 +++++++++-------------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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