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Commit f11a377b authored by David Dillow's avatar David Dillow Committed by David S. Miller
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r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts



The 8169 chip only generates MSI interrupts when all enabled event
sources are quiescent and one or more sources transition to active. If
not all of the active events are acknowledged, or a new event becomes
active while the existing ones are cleared in the handler, we will not
see a new interrupt.

The current interrupt handler masks off the Rx and Tx events once the
NAPI handler has been scheduled, which opens a race window in which we
can get another Rx or Tx event and never ACK'ing it, stopping all
activity until the link is reset (ifconfig down/up). Fix this by always
ACK'ing all event sources, and loop in the handler until we have all
sources quiescent.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Tested-by: default avatarMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c80a5cdf
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