netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.28] cxgb3 - add one check in interrupt routine

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wendyx@...ibm.com
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, wenxiong@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.28] cxgb3 - add one check in interrupt routine

From: wendy xiong <wendyx@...ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:48 -0500

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> We are submitting a patch to do the test before accessing A_PL_CLI register in interrupt routine for inclusion in 2.6.28, 
> as follows:

First, missing Signed-off-by:

Second, this is recidulious.

Every single interrupt we're going to check this error state value.  That's excessive,
and this is a performance critical fast path.

I do not want to see this begin to be a trend in the drivers, so I'm rejecting this
right now before it starts to spread.

If you want to handle this case, do something like quiesce the interrupt handler and
disable it when an error is detected.  That kind of scheme, at worst, will have the
same kinds of races that this silly test does.

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