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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:01 -0700
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Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> :
> [...]
>> Sounds good.
>
> Gah, I was not able to test it with a decent packet load. Patch below against
> the current tree:

This kills the loop which was my concern.

I will double check it works on my configuration.
Then we have the question of does it work for those folks who have cards
where the msi appeared to get lost.

David any chance you can test this patch?

Eric