Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: suppress bad irq warning for tx napi

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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:33:45 -0400

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 06:08:21PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> OK I started looking at this again. My idea is simple.
>> A. disable callbacks before we try to drain skbs
>> B. actually do disable callbacks even with event idx
>> 
>> To make B not regress, we need to
>> C. detect the common case of disable after event triggering and skip the write then.
>> 
>> I added a new event_triggered flag for that.
>> Completely untested - but then I could not see the warnings either.
>> Would be very much interested to know whether this patch helps
>> resolve the sruprious interrupt problem at all ...
>> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hmm a slightly cleaner alternative is to clear the flag when enabling interrupts ...
> I wonder which cacheline it's best to use for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please make a fresh new submission if you want to use this approach, thanks.

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