On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:38:46 +0600 Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov at sts.kz> wrote:
> Rewritten IRQ mode handling code introduced in commit 399a3f0d > (igb_uio: fix IRQ mode handling) renders some faulty NICs (VMware > e1000, for example) unusable if INTX mode is not supported. > > This patch gets these NICs up and running, but throwing a kernel > warning. > > Signed-off-by: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov at sts.kz> That is because the VMWare PCI INTX is broken. The masking logic doesn't work. Rather than applying this patch a deeper fix in E1000 and DPDK handling of link state is needed. Better to just make the E1000 able to function without IRQ for Link state than just pretend masking works