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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: mark.d.rustad@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 08/11] ixgbe: Add Live Error Recovery configuration option
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:43:21 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140103.204321.1052262695919537222.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388726310-2996-9-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Jan 2014 21:18:27 -0800

> From: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
> 
> CONFIG_IXGBE_LER is added to control LER, Live Error Recovery,
> support. This avoids possible crashes in the driver when a device
> is suddenly removed, which is possible in Thunderbolt and other
> environments. Turning this off will save a little CPU utilization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Compared to the cost of the MMIO register accesses themselves,
the cost of these checks will be negligible.

I also can't think of any distribution which would not enable
this option, so it's basically pointless.

Please remove it and just enable this new code unconditionally.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-04  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03  5:18 [net-next v2 00/11][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 01/11] ixbge: Protect ixgbe_down with __IXGBE_DOWN bit Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 02/11] ixgbe: Indicate removal state explicitly Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 03/11] ixgbe: Use static inlines instead of macros Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:28   ` Joe Perches
2014-01-03 18:31     ` Rustad, Mark D
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 04/11] ixgbe: Make ethtool register test use accessors Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 05/11] ixgbe: Check register reads for adapter removal Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 06/11] ixgbe: Check for adapter removal on register writes Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 07/11] ixgbe: Additional adapter removal checks Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 08/11] ixgbe: Add Live Error Recovery configuration option Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-04  1:43   ` David Miller [this message]
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 09/11] net: e1000e calls skb_set_hash Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 10/11] net: igb " Jeff Kirsher
2014-01-03  5:18 ` [net-next v2 11/11] igb: make local functions static and remove dead code Jeff Kirsher

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