netdev - Re: [PATCH] 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout

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Date:	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:43:35 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jasowang@...hat.com, gilboad@...il.com,
	jgarzik@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> :
> On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 23:58 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > While you are at it, do you see what would prevent the watchdog
> > timer and the rx napi handler to race on two different CPUs
> 
> Hm, good point. Is it sufficient just to stick napi_disable() and
> napi_enable() in there?

No, napi_disable() may sleep.

> And should we try to reset the TX state machine without stomping on
> RX at all ?

Either that or the watchdog timer will have to queue some user context
work. Things may change later when you go lockless (hint, hint).

-- 
Ueimor
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