Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:21:21 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [RFC] net: napi fix | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:46:34 -0800
> Isn't this a better fix for all drivers, rather than peppering every > driver with the special case. This is how the logic worked up until > 2.6.24.
Stephen this is not the problem.
The problem is that the driver is doing a NAPI completion and re-enabling chip interrupts with work_done == weight, and that is illegal.
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