Re: [PATCH] ehea: Optional TX/RX path optimized for SMP

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 04:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > 
> > > Are there any concerns about this approach?
> > 
> > Yes. You should fix the NAPI code instead of trying to work
> > around it.
> 
> NAPI is being fixed but the fix will take time to get in. In the
> meantime, the solution to get something working is the workaround

If it works right now with just a little less efficiency there
is no pressing need to do workarounds until the real solution.

Besides I doubt that patch would have made .21 anyways and in .22
you might already have multiqueue NAPI.

-Andi

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