linux/net
Stephen Hemminger bea3348eef [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.

In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.

The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:

	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)

to

	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.

The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.

Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.

With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.

Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.

[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
  Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
  handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
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9p 9p: fix bad error path in conversion routines 2007-08-23 10:25:05 -05:00
802 [SNAP]: Check packet length before reading 2007-08-21 20:58:13 -07:00
8021q [VLAN]: Fix net_device leak. 2007-09-16 16:43:04 -07:00
appletalk [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const. 2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
atm [ATM]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/atm/ 2007-08-13 22:52:01 -07:00
ax25 [AX25]: don't free pointers to statically allocated data 2007-08-14 17:24:05 -07:00
bluetooth [BLUETOOTH]: Fix non-COMPAT build of hci_sock.c 2007-09-12 14:10:58 +02:00
bridge [NET] skbuff: Add skb_cow_head 2007-09-16 16:21:16 -07:00
core [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. 2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
dccp [DCCP]: Allocation in atomic context 2007-08-21 20:58:06 -07:00
decnet [DECNET]: Fix interface address listing regression. 2007-09-11 10:45:15 +02:00
econet [ECONET]: remove econet_packet_type on unload 2007-08-14 17:25:20 -07:00
ethernet [ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr 2007-07-11 19:41:18 -07:00
ieee80211 Merge branch 'fixes-jgarzik' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes 2007-10-03 13:39:16 -04:00
ipv4 [TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed 2007-10-07 23:43:10 -07:00
ipv6 [IPv6]: Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast address 2007-10-08 00:12:05 -07:00
ipx [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const. 2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
irda [IRDA] irda_nl_get_mode: always results in failure 2007-08-21 21:23:39 -07:00
iucv [S390] Convert to smp_call_function_single. 2007-07-27 12:29:17 +02:00
key [PF_KEY]: Fix ipsec not working in 2.6.23-rc1-git10 2007-08-02 19:42:29 -07:00
lapb [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
llc [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const. 2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
mac80211 [MAC80211]: Add SIOCGIWTXPOWER routine 2007-10-10 16:47:42 -07:00
netfilter [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix sending of multipart messages 2007-09-20 12:13:52 -07:00
netlabel [NetLabel]: add missing rcu_dereference() calls in the LSM domain mapping hash table 2007-08-07 17:53:10 -07:00
netlink [GENETLINK]: Correctly report errors while registering a multicast group 2007-07-24 15:34:53 -07:00
netrom [NET] NETROM: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-07-19 10:44:32 +09:00
packet [NET] PACKET: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-07-19 10:44:35 +09:00
rfkill [NET] RFKILL: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-07-19 10:44:38 +09:00
rose [ROSE]: Fix rose.ko oops on unload 2007-10-07 23:44:17 -07:00
rxrpc net/* misc endianness annotations 2007-07-26 11:11:56 -07:00
sched [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. 2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
sctp fix sctp_del_bind_addr() last argument type 2007-09-26 09:22:04 -07:00
sunrpc rpc: fix garbage in printk in svc_tcp_accept() 2007-09-20 13:15:57 -07:00
tipc [TIPC]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/tipc/ 2007-08-13 22:52:07 -07:00
unix [AF_UNIX]: Make code static. 2007-07-31 02:28:27 -07:00
wanrouter [NET]: Removal of duplicated include net/wanrouter/wanmain.c 2007-08-02 19:42:22 -07:00
wireless [WIRELESS] radiotap parser: accept all other fields 2007-10-10 16:47:43 -07:00
x25 [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const. 2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
xfrm [XFRM]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/xfrm/ 2007-08-13 22:52:08 -07:00
compat.c O_CLOEXEC for SCM_RIGHTS 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Kconfig 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code 2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
Makefile 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code 2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
nonet.c
socket.c [NET]: Zero length write() on socket should not simply return 0. 2007-09-27 13:52:00 -07:00
sysctl_net.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
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