Re: [net-next PATCH v2] netpoll: Drop budget parameter from NAPI polling call hierarchy

2015-09-29 Thread David Miller
From: Alexander Duyck Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:16:17 -0700 > For some reason we were carrying the budget value around between the > various calls to napi->poll. If for example one of the drivers called had > a bug in which it returned a non-zero value for work this could result in > the budget

[net-next PATCH v2] netpoll: Drop budget parameter from NAPI polling call hierarchy

2015-09-28 Thread Alexander Duyck
For some reason we were carrying the budget value around between the various calls to napi->poll. If for example one of the drivers called had a bug in which it returned a non-zero value for work this could result in the budget value becoming negative. Rather than carry around a value of budget t