From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, manfred@colorfullife.com,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: msi interrupts
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:04:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48497C15.4090505@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080606131928.592fa23c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:32 -0400
> Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:51:46 -0400
>>>Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > This patch adds a workaround for lost MSI interrupts. There is a race
>>> > condition in the HW in which future interrupts could be missed. The
>>> > workaround is to toggle the MSI irq mask.
>>> >
>>>
>>>Do you think this is a 2.6.26 thing?
>>
>>It is by HW design, not related to the kernel.
>
>
> Sorry, what I meant was: do you believe that this patch should be in
> 2.6.26?
Yes, it should be treated as a critical fix.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 20:51 [PATCH] forcedeth: msi interrupts Ayaz Abdulla
2008-06-04 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-04 23:00 ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-06-06 17:15 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-06-06 20:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 18:04 ` Ayaz Abdulla [this message]
2008-06-06 21:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 21:19 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-06-06 21:40 ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-06-07 18:31 ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-06-07 19:28 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-06-08 1:33 ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-06-08 2:01 ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-06-07 19:24 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-06-06 18:03 ` Ayaz Abdulla
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