[PATCH 1/1 net-next] fec: net: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Thu Feb 28 22:06:51 EST 2013
From: Frank Li <lznuaa at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:05:57 +0800
> 2013/3/1 David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>:
>> From: Frank Li <Frank.Li at freescale.com>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:44:20 +0800
>>
>>> + int tx_pkts = fec_enet_tx(ndev);
>>> +
>>> + if (tx_pkts)
>>> + return budget;
>>
>> This isn't right, you don't want to finish the NAPI poll because
>> TX work was done.
>>
>> Ignore the TX work for poll completion purposes, see
>> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c:tg3_poll_work() for
>> example.
>
> I read tg3.c code. If I understand correct,
> just need remove below line
>
> if (tx_pkts)
> return budget;
>
> Is it ture?
Yes.
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