From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: Nikolai Zhubr <zhubr.2@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:39:14 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2106240044080.37803@angie.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60D361FF.70905@gmail.com>
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Nikolai Zhubr wrote:
> > As I said before, I still think we should also merge the 8139 driver patch,
> > probably without that loop. It's not great, but I'm much more confident
> > I understand what that does and that the patched version is better than
> > the current code.
>
> Yes, the 'poll' approach apparently works stable and does not cause any
> measurable performance decrease. But it would need some carefull
> cleanup/review, especially WRT locking. Now that all real event handling work
> is happening in the poll function, it still has to be protected against the
> (potentially also long-running) reset function which in current design can be
> called e.g. from a different thread due to tx timeout, and this does not look
> good, but it is a bit beyond my capability to arrange it better. Besides, the
> idea was to keep the fix simple and avoid a massive rework...
The simplest fix is not always the right one.
I've now posted a small patch series that adds a PCI IRQ router for the
SiS85C497 device. Would you please try it with your system along with the
debug patch included below and send me the resulting bootstap log?
Maciej
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-macro-ide/arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h
===================================================================
--- linux-macro-ide.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h
+++ linux-macro-ide/arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/ioport.h>
-#undef DEBUG
+#define DEBUG 1
#ifdef DEBUG
#define DBG(fmt, ...) printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-23 23:39 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
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 [this message]
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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