Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: unisys: visornic: Convert to using napi

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:41:10PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 06:56:33PM -0400, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Switch the visornic over to use napi.  Currently there is a kernel
> > thread
> > that sits and waits on a wait queue to get notified of incoming virtual
> > interrupts. It would be nice if we could handle frame reception using
> > the
> > standard napi processing instead.  This patch creates our napi instance
> > and has the rx thread schedule it
> > 
> > Given that the unisys hypervisor currently requires that queue servicing
> > be done by a polling loop that wakes up every 2ms, lets instead also
> > convert that to a timer, which is simpler, and allows us to remove all
> > the thread starting and stopping code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I assume you just didn't copy me on patch 1/2? I don't see it anywhere.
> 
> Neil
> 

Sorry, scratch that, it just showed up late.

for the series:
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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