Am 09.07.2014 01:43, schrieb Francois Romieu: > Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> : >> Am 09.07.2014 00:47, schrieb Francois Romieu: > [...] >>> What are you taking about ? netconsole does not need to receive. >> >> Isn't netconsole is only one user of netpoll ? > > Out of tree users are irrelevant. See netpoll related comments in > cd6362befe4cc7bf589a5236d2a780af2d47bcc9
Thanks lot for pointing this out! >> Of course netconsole needs only to transmit SKBs. >> But if you look at other ->ndo_poll_controller implementations >> you'll notice that they care also about receiving. > > It's just the long, illuminating history of netpoll :o) > > Some limited Rx netpoll support may be done but it needs more work > than was originally advertised. > >>> hyperv start_xmit handler almost does its own Tx completion as you have >>> noticed. The situation is imho close to a virtual device one as was veth >>> in bb446c19fefd7b4435adb12a9dd7666adc5b553a. >> >> Bad commit reference: bb446c19fefd7b4435adb12a9dd7666adc5b553a > > Sorry, it currently belongs to davem's net-next. Found it already. :) Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
