Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] remove netpoll rx support
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2014-03-11 16:49:09
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2014-03-11 16:49:09
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:43:10 -0700
Furthermore netpoll by it's design depends on the ability to receive packets in netpoll_poll_dev. It is a capability I don't think we have ever used in the mainline kernel but it is a capability that is there deliberately. Which means if we want netpoll to not mess with the rx path we need to change netpoll.
This breaks kdump, and any other users of netpoll_rx() et al. Make the zero budget depend upon us being invoked from hardware irq context, or something like that. Thanks.