On 15/05/17 20:31, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:24:56PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
>> Use napi_complete_done() instead of __napi_complete() to :
>>
>> 1) Get support of gro_flush_timeout if opt-in
>> 2) Not rearm interrupts for busy-polling users.
>> 3) use standard NAPI API.
>> 4) get rid of baroque code and ease maintenance.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> @@ -310,35 +311,17 @@ static int ep93xx_rx(struct net_device *dev, int 
>> processed, int budget)
>>      return processed;
>>  }
>>  
>> -static int ep93xx_have_more_rx(struct ep93xx_priv *ep)
>> -{
>> -    struct ep93xx_rstat *rstat = ep->descs->rstat + ep->rx_pointer;
>> -    return !!((rstat->rstat0 & RSTAT0_RFP) && (rstat->rstat1 & RSTAT1_RFP));
>> -}
>> -
>>  static int ep93xx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>>  {
>>      struct ep93xx_priv *ep = container_of(napi, struct ep93xx_priv, napi);
>>      struct net_device *dev = ep->dev;
>> -    int rx = 0;
>> -
>> -poll_some_more:
>> -    rx = ep93xx_rx(dev, rx, budget);
>> -    if (rx < budget) {
>> -            int more = 0;
>> +    int rx;
>>  
>> +    rx = ep93xx_rx(dev, budget);
>> +    if (rx < budget && napi_complete_done(napi, rx)) {
>>              spin_lock_irq(&ep->rx_lock);
>> -            __napi_complete(napi);
>>              wrl(ep, REG_INTEN, REG_INTEN_TX | REG_INTEN_RX);
>> -            if (ep93xx_have_more_rx(ep)) {
>> -                    wrl(ep, REG_INTEN, REG_INTEN_TX);
>> -                    wrl(ep, REG_INTSTSP, REG_INTSTS_RX);
>> -                    more = 1;
>> -            }
>>              spin_unlock_irq(&ep->rx_lock);
>> -
>> -            if (more && napi_reschedule(napi))
>> -                    goto poll_some_more;
>>      }
>>  
>>      if (rx) {
> 
> This code was the way it was because the ep93xx hardware is somewhat
> braindead.  If I remember correctly (but it's been a while since I wrote
> this code):
> 
> 1. ep93xx netdev IRQs are edge-triggered, so if you re-enable IRQs
>    while there was still work to be done, you will not get another IRQ.
> 
> 2. Disabling an interrupt source in the interrupt mask register will
>    cause its interrupt status bit to always return zero, so you cannot
>    check whether an interrupt status is pending without having the
>    interrupt source enabled.
> 
> (I'll admit that a comment explaining this would have been in order.)
> 
> I don't know if we really care about this hardware anymore (I don't),
> but the ep93xx platform is still listed as being maintained in the
> MAINTAINERS file -- adding Ryan and Hartley.

I no longer have any ep93xx hardware to test with, and I never looked at
the Ethernet, so don't know the details. I think there are still a
handful of users. Adding Alexander who sent an ADC support series this
week, who might be able to test this?

~Ryan

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