Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:53:22 -0700 |
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Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> writes:
> David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org> : > [...] >> 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 don't get it. > > Can you elaborate the relevant cases or give some sample scenarios for > them ?
I think David is referring to the fact that in the NAPI loop there is nothing that acks everything.
Eric
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