Subject: Re: NAPI: netif_rx_reschedule() ??

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:29:10 -0700

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:39:14 -0700
Roland Dreier <[email-masked]> wrote:

>     Roland> makes sense -- especially since the caller probably also
>     Roland> deducted N from *budget, and netif_rx_reschedule() doesn't
>     Roland> touch that.
> 
> Actually, why does undoing the change to quota make sense?  Presumably
> I passed N packets to netif_receive_skb() -- why shouldn't I deduct N
> from quota and *budget?
> 
>  - R.

This was probably a preventive thing to avoid scheduling when quota remaining was zero?

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>