On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Francois Romieu wrote: > Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> : > > To my limited understanding, in a NAPI polling function, one should use > > netif_receive_skb, rather than netif_rx. > > Nit: or napi_gro_receive (+ napi_gro_flush with __napi_complete) when the > device offers some checksum offloading features.
OK, thanks for the information. I am just trying to understand these functions... > > However, the via-velocity driver defines the NAPI polling function > > velocity_poll, which is the only caller of velocity_rx_srv, which > > is the only caller of velocity_receive_frame, which calls netif_rx. > > The call to netif_rx seems to predate the introduction of NAPI in > > this driver. Is this correct? > > You are right. It's a leftover of the NAPI changes in this driver. > > Can you send a netif_receive_skb replacement patch for it ? Just to be sure, I just replace netif_rx by netif_receive_skb, nothing else? thanks, julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
