Francois Romieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Afaics your change may disable the Rx irq right after the poll routine > enabled it again. It will not always work either. > > The (slow) timeout watchdog could grab the poll handler and hack the > irq mask depending on whether poll was scheduled or not. Could you please confirm whether the attached patch would work? I tested it and it works for me. Signed-off-by: Mansoor Ahamed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- old/8139too.c 2006-11-14 10:44:27.000000000 +0530 +++ new/8139too.c 2006-11-14 10:44:18.000000000 +0530 @@ -1438,8 +1438,18 @@ if ((!(tmp & CmdRxEnb)) || (!(tmp & CmdTxEnb))) RTL_W8 (ChipCmd, CmdRxEnb | CmdTxEnb); - /* Enable all known interrupts by setting the interrupt mask. */ - RTL_W16 (IntrMask, rtl8139_intr_mask); + local_irq_disable(); + /* Don't enable RX if RX was already scheduled */ + if(test_bit(__LINK_STATE_START, &dev->state) && + test_bit(__LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED, &dev->state) ) { + /* Enable all interrupts except RX by setting the interrupt mask. */ + RTL_W16 (IntrMask, rtl8139_norx_intr_mask); + } + else { + /* Enable all known interrupts by setting the interrupt mask. */ + RTL_W16 (IntrMask, rtl8139_intr_mask); + } + local_irq_enable(); } Thanks Mansoor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html