Re: [PATCH 01/11] bonding: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb.

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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.


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