sfc-falcon: remove ndo_poll_controller

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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.

sfc-falcon 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: Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Acked-By: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Eric Dumazet 2018-09-27 09:32:00 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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