From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:39:18 -0700
> David Miller wrote: > > > As a result there is no more messing around with fake NAPI polls and > > all that other crap, instead ->poll_controller() merely has to try to > > process TX queue acks to free up space and wake up the transmit > > queue(s) of the device. > > > > I think we also need to take care of link change interrupts as well. Since netpoll is best-effort, we can elide that I think. The more requirements you put into this ->poll_controller() handler, the more complicated it gets. Furthermore, this should work out. If the link is down, the top level poll loop will timeout waiting for the TX queue to open up, which will kick the netpoll processing into a work queue, the link handling will be allowed to occur meanwhile. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
