hv_netvsc: remove ndo_poll_controller
Similar to other patches from ERic. 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. In netvsc driver it uses NAPI for TX completions. The default poll_napi will do this for us now and avoid the capture. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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