Re: NAPI poll routine happens in interrupt context?

[David S. Miller]

From: Joshua Wise <Joshua.Wise@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:32:10 -0400

> I have recently been working on a network driver for an emulated ultra-simple 
> network card, and I've run into a few snags with the NAPI. My current issue 
> is that it seems to me that my poll routine is being called from an atomic 
> context, so when poll calls rx, and rx calls netif_receive_skb, I end up with 
> lots of __might_sleep warnings in the various network layers.

NAPI's ->poll method is invoked from software IRQ context.
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