From dda9d57e2d4245c0d8e309ee7399bf2ebfca64ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:27:42 -0700 Subject: fm10k: remove ndo_poll_controller 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 lasts for unlimited amount of time, since one cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load. fm10k 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 Cc: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h index a903a0ba45e1..7d42582ed48d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h @@ -504,9 +504,6 @@ void fm10k_update_stats(struct fm10k_intfc *interface); void fm10k_service_event_schedule(struct fm10k_intfc *interface); void fm10k_macvlan_schedule(struct fm10k_intfc *interface); void fm10k_update_rx_drop_en(struct fm10k_intfc *interface); -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER -void fm10k_netpoll(struct net_device *netdev); -#endif /* Netdev */ struct net_device *fm10k_alloc_netdev(const struct fm10k_info *info); -- cgit