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

Troy Kisky troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com
Thu Apr 7 08:50:53 PDT 2016


On 4/6/2016 8:57 PM, David Miller wrote:
> 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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