Commit a22ed15c authored by Kurt Kanzenbach's avatar Kurt Kanzenbach Committed by Tony Nguyen
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igb: Get rid of spurious interrupts

When running the igc with XDP/ZC in busy polling mode with deferral of hard
interrupts, interrupts still happen from time to time. That is caused by
the igb task watchdog which triggers Rx interrupts periodically.

That mechanism has been introduced to overcome skb/memory allocation
failures [1]. So the Rx clean functions stop processing the Rx ring in case
of such failure. The task watchdog triggers Rx interrupts periodically in
the hope that memory became available in the mean time.

The current behavior is undesirable for real time applications, because the
driver induced Rx interrupts trigger also the softirq processing. However,
all real time packets should be processed by the application which uses the
busy polling method.

Therefore, only trigger the Rx interrupts in case of real allocation
failures. Introduce a new flag for signaling that condition.

Follow the same logic as in commit 8dcf2c21 ("igc: Get rid of spurious
interrupts").

[1] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=3be507547e6177e5c808544bd6a2efa2c7f1d436



Reviewed-by: default avatarJoe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSweta Kumari <sweta.kumari@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
parent fc0fb1f1
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