Subject: Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 17/18] net: add netif_napi_del function to allow for removal of napistructs

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:42:25 -0400

Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> 
> Adds netif_napi_del function which is used to remove the napi struct from
> the netdev napi_list in cases where CONFIG_NETPOLL was enabled.
> The motivation for adding this is to handle the case in which the number of
> queues on a device changes due to a configuration change.  Previously the
> napi structs for each queue would be left in the list until the netdev was
> freed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/netdevice.h |   13 +++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index 1304ad2..42fc98e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -826,6 +826,19 @@ static inline void netif_napi_add(struct net_device *dev,
>  	set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + *  netif_napi_del - remove a napi context
> + *  @napi: napi context
> + *
> + *  netif_napi_del() removes a napi context from the network device napi list
> + */
> +static inline void netif_napi_del(struct napi_struct *napi)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
> +	list_del(&napi->dev_list);
> +#endif
> +}
> +

David - ACK?

I would prefer to throw this in with the 18-patch igb pile, if that's OK 
with you.

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