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i40e: Add a SW workaround for lost interrupts
authorAnjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:33:12 +0000 (14:33 -0800)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:37:27 +0000 (08:37 -0800)
commit9e13f9816c7c1719780e0ebc3166ef317059537a
tree80cd576ccb747394e6d52900f0c793234bb65b34
parent668c13c281e9785b9ca4482ef7a1d8d6db706367
i40e: Add a SW workaround for lost interrupts

Orabug: 22342532

This patch adds a workaround for cases where we might have
interrupts that got lost but WB happened.
If that happens without this patch we will see a tx_timeout.
To work around it, this patch goes ahead and reschedules NAPI
in that situation, if NAPI is not already scheduled.
We also add a counter in ethtool to keep track of when
we detect a case of tx_lost_interrupt.

Note: napi_reschedule() can be safely called from process/service_task
context and is done in other drivers as well without an issue.

Change-ID: I00f98f1ce3774524d9421227652bef20fcbd0d20
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit dd353109e41c1e92e0cea9954404a6f5a7d46218)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.h