netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1 net-next] net: fec: add napi support to improve proformance

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:23:06 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Cc:	Frank Li <Frank.Li@...escale.com>, lznuaa@...il.com,
	shawn.guo@...aro.org, B38611@...escale.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	s.hauer@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1 net-next] net: fec: add napi support to improve proformance

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com> :
[...]
> Also, when you're disabling interrupts above, you're doing that in your
> HW interrupt handler, you should be using spin_lock_irqsave()/irq_restore().

Does the platform forbid to defer FEC_EIR / FEC_IEVENT write to the napi
poll handler and only disable the irq through FEC_EIMR / FEC_IMASK in
fec_enet_interrupt so as to remove the spinlock ?

(Frank, please keep an empty line between variables declarations and
function body).

-- 
Ueimor
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