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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> :
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> This won't work as netpoll runs with IRQs disabled.
> ->ndo_poll_controller() has to make sure that SKBs can be received and transmitted
> while IRQs are off. I thought calling the channel callback by hand would be
> enough to receive SKBs.

What are you taking about ? netconsole does not need to receive.

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.

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Ueimor


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