Re: bug in virtio network driver?

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On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:06 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > One solution would be to use the xmit_done interrupt. Unfortunately this would 
> > > require additional locking as multiple interrupts can happen at two or more 
> > > cpus. Do you have any better ideas?
> > 
> > The only reason that we don't do it in skb_xmit_done() is because
> > kfree_skb() isn't supposed to be called from an interrupt.  But there's
> > dev_kfree_skb_any() which can be used.
> 
> That will simply trigger a softirq, right? If you need the softirq anyway,
> why not do all the tx handling in the poll() method like other drivers?

That would work, too.  It seems a little non-obvious to me to trigger
poll when a packet has been transmitted, but if that's the Standard I'll
follow.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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