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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Maciej W. Rozycki'" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Nikolai Zhubr <zhubr.2@gmail.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: RE: Realtek 8139 problem on 486.
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:12:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15eaef22bc2a4929a0d82fd98b2097c2@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2106211623090.779@angie.orcam.me.uk>

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
> Sent: 21 June 2021 15:42
...
>  The rule of thumb is to acknowledge early in the handler, and to work
> around broken configurations it may be desirable to also briefly mask all
> the interrupt sources with the device so as to make sure it deasserts its
> IRQ line even if another interrupt has already been queued.  OTOH if IRQ
> sharing is to be supported a device absolutely has to have an interrupt
> mask register, as the system cannot rely on masking at the interrupt
> controller if multiple devices are to be handled with a single line.  I
> suspect many of our drivers do not do such precautionary masking though.

Typically you need to:
1) stop the chip driving IRQ low.
2) process all the completed RX and TX entries.
3) clear the chip's interrupt pending bits (often write to clear).
4) check for completed RX/TX entries, back to 2 if found.
5) enable driving IRQ.

The loop (4) is needed because of the timing window between
(2) and (3).
You can swap (2) and (3) over - but then you get an additional
interrupt if packets arrive during processing - which is common.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-22 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-29 14:08 Realtek 8139 problem on 486 Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-29 18:42 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-05-29 21:44   ` tedheadster
2021-05-30  0:49     ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-30 10:36       ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-30 17:27         ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-30 20:54           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-05-30 23:17             ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-31 16:53               ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-31 18:39                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-05-31 22:18                   ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-05-31 22:30                     ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-06-01  7:20                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-01 10:53                         ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-01 11:42                           ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-06-01 16:09                             ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-01 21:48                               ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-06-01 23:37                                 ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-02  9:12                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-07 23:07                                     ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-08  7:44                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-08 20:32                                         ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-08 20:45                                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-08 22:07                                             ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-09  7:09                                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-12 17:40                                                 ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-12 22:41                                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-13 14:10                                                     ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-13 21:52                                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-03 18:32                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-04  7:36                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-20  0:34                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-20 10:19                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-21  4:10                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-21 11:22                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-21 14:42                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-21 15:20                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-22 11:12                                             ` David Laight [this message]
2021-06-22 12:42                                           ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-22 13:22                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-22 18:42                                               ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-22 19:26                                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-23  1:04                                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-24 17:56                                                     ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-24 18:25                                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-07-14 23:32                                                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-07-15  7:32                                                           ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-07-16 23:48                                                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-23 16:31                                                   ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-23 23:39                                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-24  8:28                                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-02 19:02                                                         ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-07-03  9:10                                                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-08 19:21                                                             ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-07-09  7:31                                                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-09 12:43                                                               ` David Laight
2021-06-01 17:44                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-06-02 15:14                               ` Nikolai Zhubr
2021-06-02 15:28                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-05-31 19:05                 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-05-31 18:29 ` Denis Kirjanov

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