David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:30:14 -0700 > >> This is the long-winded, careful, and polite version of removing the netpoll >> receive packet processing. >> >> First I untangle the code in small steps. Then I modify the code to not >> force reception and dropping of packets when we are transmiting a packet >> with netpoll. Finally I move all of the packet reception under >> CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP and delete CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP. >> >> If someone wants to do a stable backport it would take backporting >> the first 18 patches that handle the budget == 0 in the networking >> drivers, and the first 5 of these patches. >> >> If anyone wants to resurrect netpoll packet reception someday it should >> just be a matter of reverting the last patch. > > This looks great, but it doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, please > respin. Doh! It looks like I dropped the first patch by accident. Resend coming up. Eric -- 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