Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] remove netpoll rx support

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From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:43:10 -0700

> Furthermore netpoll by it's design depends on the ability to receive
> packets in netpoll_poll_dev.  It is a capability I don't think we have
> ever used in the mainline kernel but it is a capability that is there
> deliberately.  Which means if we want netpoll to not mess with the rx
> path we need to change netpoll.

This breaks kdump, and any other users of netpoll_rx() et al.

Make the zero budget depend upon us being invoked from hardware
irq context, or something like that.

Thanks.
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