Subject: Re: [patch 12/19] fix irq problem with NAPI + NETPOLL

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:14:43 -0800

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:06:11 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:

> [email-masked] wrote:
> > From: Atsushi Nemoto <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > It seems netif_receive_skb() was designed not to call from irq context, but
> > NAPI + NETPOLL break this rule.  If netif_receive_skb() was called from irq
> > context, redirect to netif_rx() instead of processing the skb in that
> > context.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Francois Romieu <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > 
> >  net/core/dev.c |   11 +++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> net/* stuff, I'll let DaveM make the call and apply it...

argh, sorry, this patch (which is mysteriously called
8139too-fix-irq-problem-with-napi-netpoll.patch) was supposed to go to
davem and you were supposed to receive
8139too-force-media-setting-fix.patch (which you were cc'ed on).