From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se
Cc: gallatin@myri.com, joonwpark81@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: napi fix
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:22:28 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071220.032228.186653113.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18282.15185.592112.550961@robur.slu.se>
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:52:17 +0100
> Yes but the reason was not to wait for all pending polls to
> complete so a server/router could be rebooted even under high-
> load and DOS. We've experienced some nasty problems with this.
I know, see the rest of the thread where I agree that
we need to deal with this somehow.
The device is marked down first, and somehow we need to
tip off of that to break out of the NAPI loop. This
"how" is what hasn't been resolved yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 17:29 Andrew Gallatin
2007-12-12 17:38 ` David Miller
2007-12-12 17:40 ` Andrew Gallatin
2007-12-12 18:41 ` Kok, Auke
2007-12-13 7:41 ` Joonwoo Park
2007-12-13 14:13 ` Andrew Gallatin
2007-12-13 14:19 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 16:45 ` Kok, Auke
2007-12-13 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-13 19:02 ` Andrew Gallatin
2007-12-13 19:09 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 19:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-13 20:38 ` David Miller
2007-12-14 2:06 ` Joonwoo Park
2007-12-13 13:49 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-13 13:50 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 14:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-13 20:16 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-13 20:37 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 20:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-13 21:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-13 22:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-13 22:34 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 22:58 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-20 9:52 ` Robert Olsson
2007-12-20 11:22 ` David Miller [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-12 4:01 [PATCH 6/7] [NETDEV]: tehuti Fix possible causing oops of net_rx_action Joonwoo Park
2007-12-12 5:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-12 5:46 ` [RFC] net: napi fix Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-12 6:05 ` Joonwoo Park
2007-12-12 15:22 ` David Miller
2007-12-12 15:21 ` David Miller
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