[PATCH 2/2] staging: unisys: visornic: Convert to using napi

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 4 00:45:47 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 06:56:33PM -0400, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman at redhat.com>
> 
> Switch the visornic over to use napi.  Currently there is a kernel
> thread
> that sits and waits on a wait queue to get notified of incoming virtual
> interrupts. It would be nice if we could handle frame reception using
> the
> standard napi processing instead.  This patch creates our napi instance
> and has the rx thread schedule it
> 
> Given that the unisys hypervisor currently requires that queue servicing
> be done by a polling loop that wakes up every 2ms, lets instead also
> convert that to a timer, which is simpler, and allows us to remove all
> the thread starting and stopping code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer at unisys.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c | 209 ++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)

Does not apply to the tree, please rebase and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h


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