From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755913AbcIVKRD (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:17:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35563 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbcIVKRB (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:17:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH resend] xen-netback: switch to threaded irq for control ring To: Paul Durrant , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.orga" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <1474534964-15621-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <37d32749052f4ff887c5637671085389@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net> Cc: Wei Liu From: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <2f3c7f1b-6a36-8aaa-e10a-41a1d2cf37d8@suse.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:16:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <37d32749052f4ff887c5637671085389@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 22/09/16 11:09, Paul Durrant wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of >> Juergen Gross >> Sent: 22 September 2016 10:03 >> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; netdev@vger.kernel.orga; linux- >> kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: Juergen Gross ; Wei Liu >> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH resend] xen-netback: switch to threaded irq for >> control ring >> >> Instead of open coding it use the threaded irq mechanism in xen-netback. >> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross > > How have you tested this change? Only compile-tested and loaded the module. As this feature isn't being used in linux netfront AFAIK it is not easily testable. OTOH the code modification is rather limited and I've used the threaded irq in the Xen scsiback driver myself, so I'm rather confident it will work. Juergen