Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

[David Miller]

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:28:41 +0100

> ...I'm afraid I can't understand: I mean doing the same but without
> passing this info with 'work == weight': if driver sends this info,
> why it can't instead call something like napi_continue() with
> this list_move_tail() (and probably additional local_irq_disable()/
> enble() - but since it's unlikely()?) which looks much more readable,
> and saves one whole unlikely if ()?

Because the poll list is private to net_rx_action() and we don't
want to expose implementation details like that to every
->poll() implementation.
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