ehea: Remove sleep at .ndo_get_stats
Currently ehea ndo_get_stats can sleep in two places, in a hcall
and in a GFP_KERNEL alloc, which is not correct.
This patch creates a delayed workqueue that grabs the information each 1
sec from the hardware, and place it into the device structure, so that,
.ndo_get_stats quickly returns the device structure statistics block.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <brenohl@br.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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