[v3 2/8] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sat Sep 26 05:48:48 AEST 2015
From: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at freescale.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:00:13 +0300
> +#define DPA_NAPI_WEIGHT 64
This is just the default, so simply use "NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT" rather
than defining your own macro unnecessarily for this.
> +static int dpa_eth_priv_stop(struct net_device *net_dev)
> +{
> + int err;
> + struct dpa_priv_s *priv;
> +
> + err = dpa_stop(net_dev);
> + /* Allow NAPI to consume any frame still in the Rx/TxConfirm
> + * ingress queues. This is to avoid a race between the current
> + * context and ksoftirqd which could leave NAPI disabled while
> + * in fact there's still Rx traffic to be processed.
> + */
> + usleep_range(5000, 10000);
A wait never fixes a race. Instead you must use appropriate mutual
exclusion mechanisms to ensure that NAPI is really completed it's
run, and we definitely have a means by which to do that properly.
> + net_dev->hw_features |= (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
> + NETIF_F_LLTX);
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