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    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'net-generic-busy-polling' · 85c72ba1
      David S. Miller authored
      Eric Dumazet says:
      
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      net: extend busy polling support
      
      This patch series extends busy polling range to tunnels devices,
      and adds busy polling generic support to all NAPI drivers.
      
      No need to provide ndo_busy_poll() method and extra synchronization
      between ndo_busy_poll() and normal napi->poll() method.
      This was proven very difficult and bug prone.
      
      mlx5 driver is changed to support busy polling using this new method,
      and a second mlx5 patch adds napi_complete_done() support and proper
      SNMP accounting.
      
      bnx2x and mlx4 drivers are converted to new infrastructure,
      reducing kernel bloat and improving performance.
      
      Latest patch, adding generic support, adds a new requirement :
      
       -free_netdev() and netif_napi_del() must be called from process context.
      
      Since this might not be the case in some drivers, we might have to
      either : fix the non conformant drivers (by disabling busy polling on them)
      or revert this last patch.
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      85c72ba1