On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:19:38 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Andrew Gallatin <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:13:54 -0500
>
> > If the netif_running() check is indeed required to make a device break
> > out of napi polling and respond to an ifconfig down, then I think the
> > netif_running() check should be moved up into net_rx_action() to avoid
> > potential for driver complexity and bugs like the ones you found.
>
> That, or something like it, definitely sounds reasonable and much
> better than putting the check into every driver :-)
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It is not possible to do netif_running() check in generic code as currently
written because of the case of devices where a single NAPI object is
being used to handle two devices. The association between napi and netdevice
is M to N. There are cases like niu that have multiple NAPI's and one
netdevice; and devices like sky2 that can have one NAPI and 2 netdevice's.
The existing pointer from napi to netdevice is only used by netconsole
now. For devices like sky2 it means that netconsole can't work on the the
second port which is a not a big problem. But adding a netif_running()
check would be a big issue.
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