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SubjectRe: MSI interrupts and disable_irq
Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
>>> I am trying to track down a forcedeth driver issue described by bug 9047
>>> in bugzilla (2.6.23-rc7-git1 forcedeth w/ MCP55 oops under heavy load).
>>> I added a patch to synchronize the timer handlers so that one handler
>>> doesn't accidently enable the IRQ while another timer handler is running
>>> (see attachment 'Add timer lock' in bug report) and for other processing
>>> protection.
>>>
>>> However, the system still had an Oops. So I added a lock around the
>>> nv_rx_process_optimized() and the Oops has not happened (see attachment
>>> 'New patch for locking' in bug report). This would imply a
>>> synchronization issue. However, the only callers of that function are
>>> the IRQ handler and the timer handlers (in non-NAPI case). The timer
>>> handlers use disable_irq so that the IRQ handler does not contend with
>>> them. It looks as if disable_irq is not working properly.
>>>
>>> This issue repros only with MSI interrupt and not legacy INTx
>>> interrupts. Any ideas?
>> (added linux-kernel to CC, since I think it's more of a general kernel
>> issue)
>>
> I wonder if the race is between soft_timer for nv_do_nic_poll from
> different CPUs

Interested parties should try the forcedeth patches I just posted :)

Jeff



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