Re: [PATCH] igb: completely disable interrupts during netpoll

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On Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:43 pm David Miller wrote:
> From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:40:40 -0400
>
> > For the poll_controller routines (which is what this patch is about),
> > quite a few do (bnx2, bnx2x, b44, e1000, and e1000e to name a few).
> >
> > Much like the other drivers for Intel hardware, the function with
> > 'netpoll' in the name is used for the poll_controller routine whereas
> > the napi poll routines all have 'clean' in the name.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> I'm still curious what the deadlock case is.  It might be something
> we should fix elsewhere too.

I'm curious too... Also, won't using disable_irq() rather than a device 
specific method break the shared irq case?  It looks like free_irq() handles 
that, but not disable_irq().

Jesse
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