Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2014 01:43:38 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support |
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Richard Weinberger <richard@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
> 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.
-- Ueimor
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