From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com,
anupamc@vmware.com, stable@kernel.org,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] e1000: fix screaming IRQ
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:54:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101121.095435.193722509.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101121104747.17414.88773.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:48:28 -0800
> From: Anupam Chanda <anupamc@vmware.com>
>
> VMWare reports that the e1000 driver has a bug when bringing down the
> interface, such that interrupts are not disabled in the hardware but the
> driver stops reporting that it consumed the interrupt.
>
> The fix is to set the driver's "down" flag later in the routine,
> after all the timers and such have exited, preventing the interrupt
> handler from being called and exiting early without handling the
> interrupt.
>
> CC: Anupam Chanda <anupamc@vmware.com>
> CC: stable kernel <stable@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
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2010-11-21 10:48 [net-2.6 PATCH] e1000: fix screaming IRQ Jeff Kirsher
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