Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-02

Re: [v3 2/8] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet

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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-09-25 19:48:52
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From: Madalin Bucur <redacted>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:00:13 +0300
+#define DPA_NAPI_WEIGHT		64
This is just the default, so simply use "NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT" rather
than defining your own macro unnecessarily for this.
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+static int dpa_eth_priv_stop(struct net_device *net_dev)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct dpa_priv_s *priv;
+
+	err = dpa_stop(net_dev);
+	/* Allow NAPI to consume any frame still in the Rx/TxConfirm
+	 * ingress queues. This is to avoid a race between the current
+	 * context and ksoftirqd which could leave NAPI disabled while
+	 * in fact there's still Rx traffic to be processed.
+	 */
+	usleep_range(5000, 10000);
A wait never fixes a race.  Instead you must use appropriate mutual
exclusion mechanisms to ensure that NAPI is really completed it's
run, and we definitely have a means by which to do that properly.
+	net_dev->hw_features |= (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
+		NETIF_F_LLTX);
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