netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:19:03 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>,
	Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Rui Santos <rsantos@...popie.com>,
	Michael B??ker <m.bueker@...lin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> :
[...]
> I am a bit curious about TxDescUnavail.  Perhaps we had a temporary
> memory shortage and that is what was screaming?  I don't think we do
> anything at all with that state.

You are not alone, the driver completely ignores this bit.

As far as I remember, the TxDescUnavail event mostly pops up when the
driver makes an excessive use of TxPoll requests.

> Perhaps the flaw here is simply not masking TxDescUnavail while we are
> in NAPI mode ?

Yes, it is worth trying.

-- 
Ueimor
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