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authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>2007-05-07 00:26:15 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-05-07 00:26:15 -0700
commitc04cb34725fdcf5fdb4135d8fdfaf6f318f10e99 (patch)
treee4194a9f1a9914a25590dab0ca60285b29c9ac15 /drivers/net
parent8ed5d97e5e0be0fb1aebad16f4c464613a0e472d (diff)
[TG3]: Eliminate spurious interrupts.
Spurious interrupts are often encountered especially on systems using the 8259 PIC mode. This is because the I/O write to deassert the interrupt is posted and won't get to the chip immediately. As a result, the IRQ may remain asserted after the IRQ handler exits, causing spurious interrupts. Flush the interrupt mailbox in non-MSI handlers to de-assert the IRQ immediately. This seems to be the most straight forward approach after discussion with Jeff Garzik and David Miller. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tg3.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
index 630c8a6c9f73..6f849bd5a7e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
@@ -3590,8 +3590,12 @@ static irqreturn_t tg3_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
* Writing non-zero to intr-mbox-0 additional tells the
* NIC to stop sending us irqs, engaging "in-intr-handler"
* event coalescing.
+ *
+ * Flush the mailbox to de-assert the IRQ immediately to prevent
+ * spurious interrupts. The flush impacts performance but
+ * excessive spurious interrupts can be worse in some cases.
*/
- tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW, 0x00000001);
+ tw32_mailbox_f(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW, 0x00000001);
if (tg3_irq_sync(tp))
goto out;
sblk->status &= ~SD_STATUS_UPDATED;
@@ -3635,8 +3639,12 @@ static irqreturn_t tg3_interrupt_tagged(int irq, void *dev_id)
* writing non-zero to intr-mbox-0 additional tells the
* NIC to stop sending us irqs, engaging "in-intr-handler"
* event coalescing.
+ *
+ * Flush the mailbox to de-assert the IRQ immediately to prevent
+ * spurious interrupts. The flush impacts performance but
+ * excessive spurious interrupts can be worse in some cases.
*/
- tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW, 0x00000001);
+ tw32_mailbox_f(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW, 0x00000001);
if (tg3_irq_sync(tp))
goto out;
if (netif_rx_schedule_prep(dev)) {