From: "Figo.zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>,
Dick Hollenbeck <dick@softplc.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, zealcook@gmail.com
Subject: Re: KS8695: possible NAPI issue
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:40:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267843250.2669.7.camel@myhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305082218.4f734857@nehalam>
>
> One of the requirements for NAPI to work is that the IRQ is level triggered.
> Otherwise there can be a race between packet arrival and the end of
> NAPI processing:
>
> static int ks8695_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
> {
> struct ks8695_priv *ksp = container_of(napi, struct ks8695_priv, napi);
> unsigned long work_done;
>
> unsigned long isr = readl(KS8695_IRQ_VA + KS8695_INTEN);
> unsigned long mask_bit = 1 << ks8695_get_rx_enable_bit(ksp);
>
> work_done = ks8695_rx(ksp, budget);
>
> if (work_done < budget) {
> unsigned long flags;
> spin_lock_irqsave(&ksp->rx_lock, flags);
> >>> packet arrives >>
> /*enable rx interrupt*/
> writel(isr | mask_bit, KS8695_IRQ_VA + KS8695_INTEN);
> >>> or here >>
> __napi_complete(napi);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ksp->rx_lock, flags);
>
yes, it is right, it maybe a race condition. so you can motify
ks8695_poll() to try, like this:
__napi_complete(napi);
/*enable rx interrupt*/
writel(isr | mask_bit, KS8695_IRQ_VA + KS8695_INTEN);
Best,
Figo.zhang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 12:04 KS8695: possible NAPI issue Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-02 14:09 ` Dick Hollenbeck
2010-03-03 1:46 ` figo zhang
2010-03-03 5:01 ` Dick Hollenbeck
2010-03-03 8:28 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-04 10:10 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-05 6:54 ` figo zhang
2010-03-05 10:06 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-05 13:52 ` Figo.zhang
2010-03-05 15:03 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-05 14:07 ` Figo.zhang
2010-03-05 15:00 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-05 16:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-06 2:40 ` Figo.zhang [this message]
2010-03-08 9:04 ` figo zhang
2010-03-08 14:10 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-08 14:11 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-03-09 1:50 ` figo zhang
2010-03-15 9:19 ` Yegor Yefremov
2010-08-04 14:40 ` Yegor Yefremov
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