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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: apm: xgene: force XGene enet driver to re-balance IRQ usage
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On 09/18/2018 05:03 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 09/18/2018 04:56 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/18/2018 04:27 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> I remember one of the napi_complete_done() change had to be reverted,
>>> for some obscure reason.
>>
>>
>>
>> That was not exactly a revert, :
>
> This is what I have so far for the drivers that both use
> napi_complete_done() without checking the return value and implement a
> ndo_poll_controller() callback:
>
> https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/napi-check

In fact, there is still to explain what the bug is.

napi_complete_done() return value can be ignored, unless drivers
have to disable IRQ in their interrupt handler, using the following
construct :

if (napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
.... disable interrupt ....
__napi_schedule_irqoff(napi);
}



It _can_ be used by other drivers to not rearm interrupts needlessly.

The bug discussed in this thread (re-balance IRQ usage) is of the same kind than
the one fixed in commit d7aba644ffdebf756e51e26a2229055211838e89 ("amd-xgbe: Enable IRQs only if napi_complete_done() is true")

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