summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/drivers/net/ixgb
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-08 05:35:07 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-09 08:30:07 +0100
commita0a46196cd98af5cc015842bba757571f02a8c30 (patch)
tree1e73ef1d0251f969fbb1a51637722c2c793ff0b6 /drivers/net/ixgb
parent[NET]: Do not grab device reference when scheduling a NAPI poll. (diff)
downloadlinux-a0a46196cd98af5cc015842bba757571f02a8c30.tar.xz
linux-a0a46196cd98af5cc015842bba757571f02a8c30.zip
[NET]: Add NAPI_STATE_DISABLE.
Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress. This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically break out of the ->poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish). Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit (to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared. Here, the test_and_set_bit() provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops. napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable is pending. As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves this purpose. And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what we really want. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ixgb')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions