On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 00:42 -0400, David Miller wrote: > These changes eminate from a recent discussion about netpoll, which can > call into the driver from hardware interrupts, particularly when netconsole > services a printk from hardware interrupt context. > > bnx2x already makes similar ammends. > > I hope that Eric B. here audited to make sure he's only doing this > transformation in situations that actually need this treatment for > the above mentioned issue. I totally understand the TX path, not the RX. It seems netpoll should not drain rx queues. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html