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[PATCH] tg3 intr masking update

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] tg3 intr masking update
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:31:58 -0500
Cc: Manish Lachwani <manish@xxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Here is a better patch, after I mulled it over on the trip to Atlanta.

It is based on the premise, derived from the chip documentation, that

1) intr-mbox-0 register usage is used to indicate to the NIC that the driver is "in interrupt handler".
2) (intr-mbox-0 = 1) == pci-inta-mask + pci-inta-clear + stuff
3) the docs seem to be saying "just use intr-mbox-0 and ignore pci-inta-mask"


Based on these three observations, the attached patch updates tg3 for the following changes:

1) Mask ints in tg3_interrupt and unmask in tg3_poll. We not only eliminate several MMIO writes/reads, but we also eliminate all usage of functions tg3_[un]mask_ints(), which bit-bangs the MISC_HOST_CTRL_MASK_PCI_INT bit in the TG3PCI_MISC_HOST_CTRL register.

2) If tg3_main_interrupt_work() returns no-work-exists, we [obviously must] unmask ints in tg3_interrupt. But this is an unlikely case.

3) Simply call netif_rx_schedule(dev) in tg3_interrupt_main_work(). This was a change previously discussed. Eliminates the "poll already scheduled" message which was often actually a bogus message.

4) Because of #2, tg3_interrupt_main_work returns boolean 'work_exists' now.

5) There are some Bugzilla bug reports for tg3 1.2, where NMI watchdog triggers in tg3_timer. I did s/spin_lock_irq/spin_lock_irqsave/ in tg3_poll for safety, because we might be locking against a timer not only an interrupt handler. And just for general paranoia and safety as an "obviously more safe" change.

Comments/feedback/corrections/flames requested :)
===== drivers/net/tg3.c 1.40 vs edited =====
--- 1.40/drivers/net/tg3.c      Mon Dec  9 21:32:02 2002
+++ edited/drivers/net/tg3.c    Sat Dec 21 15:06:34 2002
@@ -217,22 +217,6 @@
        tr32(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW);
 }
 
-static inline void tg3_mask_ints(struct tg3 *tp)
-{
-       tw32(TG3PCI_MISC_HOST_CTRL,
-            (tp->misc_host_ctrl | MISC_HOST_CTRL_MASK_PCI_INT));
-}
-
-static inline void tg3_unmask_ints(struct tg3 *tp)
-{
-       tw32(TG3PCI_MISC_HOST_CTRL,
-            (tp->misc_host_ctrl & ~MISC_HOST_CTRL_MASK_PCI_INT));
-       if (tp->hw_status->status & SD_STATUS_UPDATED) {
-               tw32(GRC_LOCAL_CTRL,
-                    tp->grc_local_ctrl | GRC_LCLCTRL_SETINT);
-       }
-}
-
 static void tg3_switch_clocks(struct tg3 *tp)
 {
        if (tr32(TG3PCI_CLOCK_CTRL) & CLOCK_CTRL_44MHZ_CORE) {
@@ -2014,8 +1998,9 @@
        struct tg3 *tp = netdev->priv;
        struct tg3_hw_status *sblk = tp->hw_status;
        int done;
+       unsigned long flags;
 
-       spin_lock_irq(&tp->lock);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&tp->lock, flags);
 
        if (!(tp->tg3_flags &
              (TG3_FLAG_USE_LINKCHG_REG |
@@ -2052,15 +2037,18 @@
 
        if (done) {
                netif_rx_complete(netdev);
-               tg3_unmask_ints(tp);
+               tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW,
+                            0x00000000);
+               /* don't care about flushing this write immediately */
        }
 
-       spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tp->lock, flags);
 
        return (done ? 0 : 1);
 }
 
-static __inline__ void tg3_interrupt_main_work(struct net_device *dev, struct 
tg3 *tp)
+static inline unsigned int tg3_interrupt_main_work(struct net_device *dev,
+                                                  struct tg3 *tp)
 {
        struct tg3_hw_status *sblk = tp->hw_status;
        int work_exists = 0;
@@ -2075,19 +2063,10 @@
            sblk->idx[0].rx_producer != tp->rx_rcb_ptr)
                work_exists = 1;
 
-       if (!work_exists)
-               return;
+       if (work_exists)
+               netif_rx_schedule(dev);
 
-       if (netif_rx_schedule_prep(dev)) {
-               /* NOTE: These writes are posted by the readback of
-                *       the mailbox register done by our caller.
-                */
-               tg3_mask_ints(tp);
-               __netif_rx_schedule(dev);
-       } else {
-               printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s: Error, poll already scheduled\n",
-                      dev->name);
-       }
+       return work_exists;
 }
 
 static void tg3_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -2102,13 +2081,16 @@
        if (sblk->status & SD_STATUS_UPDATED) {
                tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW,
                             0x00000001);
+               /* flush the intr clear-and-mask before updating status block */
+               tr32(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW);
                sblk->status &= ~SD_STATUS_UPDATED;
 
-               tg3_interrupt_main_work(dev, tp);
-
-               tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW,
-                            0x00000000);
-               tr32(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW);
+               if (!tg3_interrupt_main_work(dev, tp)) {
+                       /* if work doesn't exist... */
+                       tw32_mailbox(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW,
+                                    0x00000000);
+                       tr32(MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW);
+               }
        }
 
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tp->lock, flags);
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