net: provide generic busy polling to all NAPI drivers
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:31:03 +0000 (06:31 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:17:42 +0000 (16:17 -0500)
commit93d05d4a320cb16712bb3d57a9658f395d8cecb9
tree65c0340484128f9e5d9e732b92bc22b458faae94
parent34cbe27e811c591c854a39c0dee1b461bb796953
net: provide generic busy polling to all NAPI drivers

NAPI drivers no longer need to observe a particular protocol
to benefit from busy polling (CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL=y)

napi_hash_add() and napi_hash_del() are automatically called
from core networking stack, respectively from
netif_napi_add() and netif_napi_del()

This patch depends on free_netdev() and netif_napi_del() being
called from process context, which seems to be the norm.

Drivers might still prefer to call napi_hash_del() on their
own, since they might combine all the rcu grace periods into
a single one, knowing their NAPI structures lifetime, while
core networking stack has no idea of a possible combining.

Once this patch proves to not bring serious regressions,
we will cleanup drivers to either remove napi_hash_del()
or provide appropriate rcu grace periods combining.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
14 files changed:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
include/linux/netdevice.h
net/core/dev.c
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