netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Fix irq masking in rtl8169

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:06:25 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Karsten Wiese <fzu@...gehoertderstaat.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Fix irq masking in rtl8169_interrupt()

Karsten Wiese <fzu@...gehoertderstaat.de> :
> 
> Only adjust the NAPI bits of the interruptmask, if netif_rx_schedule_prep()
> returns true.
> Without this, I see interrupt storms here using 2.6.29-rcx and 2.6.27.19 and
> device needed rmmod r8169 + modprobe r8169 to start working.

How the patch is supposed to work is not completely clear to me.

Can you elaborate a bit ?

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Ueimor
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