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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-01-07 20:53:33 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-01-08 23:30:12 -0800 |
commit | d1d08d1265810ef1f165864850416dcbc9725ee7 (patch) | |
tree | 9c053e8822e33ff719da72df620f1335207ab73d /Documentation/README.cycladesZ | |
parent | 1706287f6eb58726a9a0e5cbbde87f49757615e3 (diff) |
[NET]: Fix drivers to handle napi_disable() disabling interrupts.
When we add the generic napi_disable_pending() breakout
logic to net_rx_action() it means that napi_disable()
can cause NAPI poll interrupt events to be disabled.
And this is exactly what we want. If a napi_disable()
is pending, and we are looping in the ->poll(), we want
->poll() event interrupts to stay disabled and we want
to complete the NAPI poll ASAP.
When ->poll() break out during device down was being handled on a
per-driver basis, often these drivers would turn interrupts back on
when '!netif_running()' was detected.
And this would just cause a reschedule of the NAPI ->poll() in the
interrupt handler before the napi_disable() could get in there and
grab the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit.
The vast majority of drivers don't care if napi_disable() might have
the side effect of disabling NAPI ->poll() event interrupts. In all
such cases, when a napi_disable() is performed, the driver just
disabled interrupts or is about to.
However there were three exceptions to this in PCNET32, R8169, and
SKY2. To fix those cases, at the subsequent napi_enable() points, I
added code to ensure that the ->poll() interrupt events are enabled in
the hardware.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
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