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i40e: fix un-necessary Tx hangs
authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Wed, 7 Jan 2015 02:55:01 +0000 (02:55 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Wed, 7 Jan 2015 00:57:18 +0000 (16:57 -0800)
commit184900813a975de5a821e371490c2cca52036583
tree6b6edb1dc70eabd8586d050610dce621464fb65c
parentf5cdd8fd635491f0a8a4df7693369d501f348f8d
i40e: fix un-necessary Tx hangs

When the driver was polling with interrupts disabled the hardware
will occasionally not write back descriptors.  This patch causes
the driver to detect this situation and force an interrupt to
fire which will flush the stuck descriptor.  Does not conflict
with napi because if we are already polling the napi_schedule is
ignored.  Additionally the extra interrupts are rate limited, so
don't cause a burden to the CPU.

Change-ID: Iba4616d2a71288672a5f08e4512e2704b97335e8
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h