netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: handle all interrupt events in the hard irq handler

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Message-Id: <20181020.123551.323858377469607228.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:35:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: handle all interrupt events in the
 hard irq handler

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:19:28 +0200

> Having a separate "slow event" handler isn't needed because all
> interrupt events trigger asynchronous activity. And in case of SYSErr
> we have bigger problems than performance anyway.
> This patch also allows to get rid of acking interrupt events in the
> NAPI poll callback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
> This patch will apply to net-next only after 6b839b6cf9ea ("r8169: fix
> NAPI handling under high load") was merged from net to net-next.

Applied.