Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch 2/3] bridge: make bridge support netpoll | From | Matt Mackall <> | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:27:50 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 10:03 +0800, Cong Wang wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 04:17 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote: > >> Based on the previous patch, make bridge support netpoll by: > >> > >> 1) implement the 4 methods to support netpoll for bridge; > >> > >> 2) modify netpoll during forwarding packets in bridge; > >> > >> 3) disable netpoll support of bridge when a netpoll-unabled device > >> is added to bridge; > > > > Not sure if this is the right thing to do. Shouldn't we simply enable > > polling on all devices that support it and warn about the others (aka > > best effort)? > > > > I don't think it's a good idea, because we check if a device > supports netpoll by checking if it has ndo_poll_controller method.
Uh, what? If we have 5 devices on a bridge and 4 support netpoll, then shouldn't we just send netconsole messages to those 4 devices? Isn't this much better than simply refusing to work?
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