netdev - Re: [PATCH net] r8169: fix NAPI handling under high load

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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:58:52 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: fix NAPI handling under high load

On 18.10.2018 07:21, David Miller wrote:
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 01:30:45 +0200
> 
>> Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> :
>> [...]
>>> This issue has been there more or less forever (at least it exists in
>>> 3.16 already), so I can't provide a "Fixes" tag. 
>>
>> Hardly forever. It fixes da78dbff2e05630921c551dbbc70a4b7981a8fff.
> 
> I don't see exactly how that can be true.
> 
> That commit didn't change the parts of the NAPI poll processing which
> are relevant here, mainly the guarding of the RX and TX work using
> the status bits which are cleared.
> 

AFAICS Francois is right and patch da78dbff2e05 ("r8169: remove work
from irq handler") introduced the guarding of RX and TX work.
I just checked back to 3.16 as oldest LTS kernel version.

> Maybe I'm missing something?  If so, indeed it would be nice to add
> a proper Fixes: tag here.
> 
Shall I submit a v2 including the Fixes line?

> Thanks!
>