[PATCH net-next V3 05/16] net: fec: reduce interrupts

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Apr 6 20:57:31 PDT 2016


From: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 17:42:47 -0700

> Sure, that's an easy change. But if a TX int is what caused the
> interrupt and masks them, and then a RX packet happens before napi
> runs, do you want the TX serviced 1st, or RX ?

If you properly split your driver up into seperate interrupt/poll
instances, one for TX one for RX, you wouldn't need to ask me
that question now would you?

:-)



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