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SubjectRe: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler.
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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:17 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> writes:
>
> > Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> :
> > [...]
> >> Sounds good.
> >
> > Gah, I was not able to test it with a decent packet load. Patch below against
> > the current tree:
>
> This kills the loop which was my concern.
>
> I will double check it works on my configuration.
> Then we have the question of does it work for those folks who have cards
> where the msi appeared to get lost.
>
> David any chance you can test this patch?

It'll be this weekend, but I can see cases where it can lock my chip up
-- they should be rare, but then I thought your case would be extremely
rare...

I think we'll need to go to a full separation between MSI and
level-triggered interrupt handlers, or at the very least mask everything
and handle it all in NAPI. That seems more viable now that I know
Francois is not terribly worried about diverging from the vendor driver
there.



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