Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based PCI Express adapters...

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:16:36 +0100

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:00:29PM -0700, Veeraiyan, Ayyappan wrote:
> Agreed. 
> Fake netdevs are needed for doing the multiple Rx queues in NAPI mode.
> We are thinking to solve in 2 ways. Having netdev pointer in ring
> structure or having an array of netdev pointers in ixgbe_adatper struct
> which would be visible to all rings.

Didn't we have a patchset floating around recently that separates NAPI
state from struct netdevice?