Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: Bonding driver unreliable under high CPUload

["Chad N. Tindel" <ctindel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Also, a further question:  do you have access to the slave struct
> > net_device?  If so, just test netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) and avoid all
> > that ioctl calling if it returns non-zero.
>
> Make that "avoid all that ioctl calling from interrupt context", which
> is a bug.  Of the box-killing variety ;)

Will netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) always work?  Do all drivers support the
__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER flag?  If so, is there any reason to call the ioctl
in the first place?

Chad