netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler.

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Message-ID: <20090827052423.GA1709@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:24:23 +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] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler.

[...]
> Right now I really don't have much more test bandwidth.  So I tried
> for something simple that would address my problem without
> fundamentally changing the already tested logic.

Fair enough.

[...]
> Perhaps we should unconditionally ack everything after changing the 
> interrupt mask  ? If that would prevent races it sounds like a simple
> fix.

I should be able to implement something right this evening, please hold on.

-- 
Ueimor
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