[PATCH net 0/2] r8169: Fix GRO-related issue with not disabled device interrupts

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

Ken reported that RTL8125b can lock up if gro_flush_timeout has the
default value of 20000 and napi_defer_hard_irqs is set to 0.
In this scenario device interrupts aren't disabled, what seems to
trigger some silicon bug under heavy load. I was able to reproduce this
behavior on RTL8168h.
Disabling device interrupts if NAPI is scheduled from a place other than
the driver's interrupt handler is a necessity in r8169, for other
drivers it may still be a performance optimization.
Therefore add a variant of napi_schedule_prep() with a more granular
return value.

Patch was verified to fix the issue for RTL8168h.

Heiner Kallweit (2):
  net: add napi_schedule_prep variant with more granular return value
  r8169: disable interrupts also for GRO-scheduled NAPI

 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c |  6 ++++--
 include/linux/netdevice.h                 |  7 ++++++-
 net/core/dev.c                            | 12 ++++++------
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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