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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2014-03-14 23:48:28 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-03-17 15:47:22 -0400 |
| commit | b6bacd550c33124ea76291bd84ac42c8d30767eb (patch) | |
| tree | 19a5fb4f432141125a0bbc16254f8e83b57f3645 /net/core/neighbour.c | |
| parent | ff6076314339e079806d9d2f3de9c9b768e94db1 (diff) | |
netpoll: Don't drop all received packets.
Change the strategy of netpoll from dropping all packets received
during netpoll_poll_dev to calling napi poll with a budget of 0
(to avoid processing drivers rx queue), and to ignore packets received
with netif_rx (those will safely be placed on the backlog queue).
All of the netpoll supporting drivers have been reviewed to ensure
either thay use netif_rx or that a budget of 0 is supported by their
napi poll routine and that a budget of 0 will not process the drivers
rx queues.
Not dropping packets makes NETPOLL_RX_DROP unnecesary so it is removed.
npinfo->rx_flags is removed as rx_flags with just the NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED
flag becomes just a redundant mirror of list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np).
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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