[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] ixgbe: check return value of napi_complete_done()

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 14:59:45 UTC 2018



On 09/21/2018 07:55 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> 
> should we remove ndo_poll_controller then?
> My understanding that the patch helps by not letting
> drivers do napi_schedule() for all queues into this_cpu, right?
> But most of the drivers do exactly that in their ndo_poll_controller
> implementations. Means most of the drivers will experience
> this nasty behavior.
> 

Some legacy drivers do not use NAPI yet, but provide ndo_poll_controller()

I believe users caring about system behavior with multi queue NIC are
all using NAPI enabled drivers, so this should be fine.



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