Re: [PATCH v4] lpc32xx: Added ethernet driver

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mardi 06 mars 2012 Ã 09:53 +0100, Roland Stigge a Ãcrit :

> Sounds reasonable, and will do it.
> 
> However, I implemented it from the example of
> drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c:velocity_poll() - is there a
> good reason for doing it that way in the velocity driver or is it done
> incorrectly there, also?
> 

Its done in a non efficient way.

It works as is, but its not the right thing to do.
The NAPI port was very minimal on via-velocity it seems.

A better way is to hold no locks in the RX handler, allowing calls to
netif_receive_skb() [ and potential calls to xmit while handling this
incoming skbs ]

Problem of saying "we dont expect to be SMP anyway", is that this let
reference material for future drivers that will copy/paste the code,
then experience performance problems.



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