netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] be2net: fix unconditionally returning IRQ

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:33:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] be2net: fix unconditionally returning
 IRQ_HANDLED in INTx

From: "Perla, Sathya" <Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:29:36 +0000

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>>
>>From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
>>Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:17:02 +0530
>>
>>> commit e49cc34f introduced an unconditional IRQ_HANDLED return in be_intx()
>>> to workaround Lancer and BE2 HW issues. This is bad as it prevents the kernel
>>> from detecting interrupt storms due to broken HW.
>>>
> ...
>>> Issue (1) can cause the notified events to be orphaned, if NAPI was already
>>> running.
>>> This patch fixes this issue by scheduling NAPI only if it is not scheduled
>>> already. Doing this also takes care of possible events_get() race that may be
>>> caused due to issue (2) and (3). Also, IRQ_HANDLED is returned only the first
>>> time zero events are detected.
>>> (Thanks Ben H. for the feedback and suggestions.)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
>>
>>Any particular reason why we shouldn't put this fix into 'net' instead
>>of 'net-next'?
> 
> Dave, this fix can surely go into "net" as the previous commit is already in Linus tree....
> I guess I requested "net-next" just out of habit.

Applied to 'net', thanks.
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