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

Re: [PATCH 00/10] netpoll: Cleanup received packet processing

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2014-03-17 19:49:20

From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:43:13 -0700
This is the long-winded, careful, and polite version of removing the netpoll
receive packet processing.

First I untangle the code in small steps.  Then I modify the code to not
force reception and dropping of packets when we are transmiting a packet
with netpoll.  Finally I move all of the packet reception under
CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP and delete CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP.

If someone wants to do a stable backport of these patches, it would
require backporting the first 18 patches that handle the budget == 0 in
the networking drivers, and the first 6 of these patches.

If anyone wants to resurrect netpoll packet reception someday it should
just be a matter of reverting the last patch.
Series applied, thanks Eric.
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