On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 08:48 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> It is very common in modern network devices to use NAPI in RX and TX,
> in the UD/TX flows IPoIB uses a polling mechanism (not as it does in
> the CM mode).
>
> Except of the motivation to use the same mechanism for IPoIB as for
> netdevices, there are number of issues in current polling mechanism:
> * SKBs that are kept longer than they should be and there are
> applications
> that warn about that (some firewalls for example).
> * Statistics that are not updated to the real value. It blocks
> support
> for time synchronization protocols over the IPoIB protocol, like
> PTP
> and so on.
> * The TX in CM mode already uses NAPI, there is no reason to keep
> two
> different ways for TX one for UD and one for the CM.
>
> The patches are available in the git repository at:
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/leon/linux-rdma.git
> tags/rdma-next-2017-10-16-2
>
> Thanks
Thanks, series applied.
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