Aw: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses.

2016-12-02 Thread Lino Sanfilippo
Hi, > > There's nothing that protect stmmac_poll() from running concurently > with stmmac_dma_interrupt(), right? > could it be that there is also another issue concerned locking?: The tx completion handler takes the xmit_lock in case that the netif_queue is stopped. This is AFAICS

Aw: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses.

2016-12-02 Thread Lino Sanfilippo
Hi, > > There's nothing that protect stmmac_poll() from running concurently > with stmmac_dma_interrupt(), right? > could it be that there is also another issue concerned locking?: The tx completion handler takes the xmit_lock in case that the netif_queue is stopped. This is AFAICS