Revision d8ea6a91ad70ae0881d76446df27d3f58fd478c3 authored by Eric Dumazet on 21 September 2018, 22:27:49 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 24 September 2018, 04:55:25 UTC
As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture can last for unlimited amount of time, since one cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load. bnx2x uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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