David,
From an old thread:
> 5) Since, in the NETPOLL case, netif_napi_init() adds the NAPI struct
> to the per-device list I renamed it to netif_napi_add(). Currently
> no teardown is really necessary, anything that would need to be done
> would be driver internal, so I didn't create the corollary
> netif_napi_remove() for the time being. Let's not add it unless it
> really becomes necessary.
while coding the NAPI API changes into the ixgbe driver, I notice that I'm in
need for an implementation for netif_napi_remove(). The ixgbe driver itself
already modifies it's polling routing on open() and close() based on whether it
was able to acquire MSI-X vectors or not, and can thus logically change as the
system suspends/resumes and new hardware is inserted that change the balance in
the MSI-X vectors in the system. Or, even more bluntly, all MSI support is
disabled and we want the driver to come up in legacy mode and use a completely
different poll routine alltogether. We can't do this at probe time.
In any case I think we have a legitimate case for netif_napi_remove() to be
implemented.
Auke
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