From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:53:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1251294974.14241.9.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1251295175.14241.11.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090826213024.GA20428@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20090827052423.GA1709@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20090827232024.GA30119@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <1251422978.21865.2.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090830203735.GA24912@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Dillow , Michael Riepe , Michael Buesch , Rui Santos , Michael B??ker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:54012 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754008AbZH3Uxa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:53:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090830203735.GA24912@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (Francois Romieu's message of "Sun\, 30 Aug 2009 22\:37\:35 +0200") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Francois Romieu writes: > David Dillow : > [...] >> It'll be this weekend, but I can see cases where it can lock my chip up >> -- they should be rare, but then I thought your case would be extremely >> rare... > > I don't get it. > > Can you elaborate the relevant cases or give some sample scenarios for > them ? I think David is referring to the fact that in the NAPI loop there is nothing that acks everything. Eric