[patch 11/20] r8169: avoid needless NAPI poll scheduling

Greg KH
2007-08-21T06:56:37Z

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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>

Theory : though needless, it should not have hurt.
Practice: it does not play nice with DEBUG_SHIRQ + LOCKDEP + UP
(see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D242572).

The patch makes sense in itself but I should dig why it has an effect
on #242572 (assuming that NAPI do not change in a near future).

Patch in mainline as 313b0305b5a1e7e0fb39383befbf79558ce68a9c.
Backported to 2.6.22-stable by Thomas M=FCller.

Signed-off-by: Thomas M=FCller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/net/r8169.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -2649,14 +2649,16 @@ rtl8169_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_ins
rtl8169_check_link_status(dev, tp, ioaddr);

#ifdef CONFIG_R8169_NAPI
- RTL_W16(IntrMask, rtl8169_intr_mask & ~rtl8169_napi_event);
- tp->intr_mask = ~rtl8169_napi_event;
-
- if (likely(netif_rx_schedule_prep(dev)))
- __netif_rx_schedule(dev);
- else if (netif_msg_intr(tp)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "%s: interrupt %04x taken in poll\n",
- dev->name, status);
+ if (status & rtl8169_napi_event) {
+ RTL_W16(IntrMask, rtl8169_intr_mask & ~rtl8169_napi_event);
+ tp->intr_mask = ~rtl8169_napi_event;
+
+ if (likely(netif_rx_schedule_prep(dev)))
+ __netif_rx_schedule(dev);
+ else if (netif_msg_intr(tp)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%s: interrupt %04x in poll\n",
+ dev->name, status);
+ }
}
break;
#else

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