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Benjamin Poirier e759b5cf70 staging: qlge: Remove irq_cnt
qlge uses an irq enable/disable refcounting scheme that is:
* poorly implemented
	Uses a spin_lock to protect accesses to the irq_cnt atomic
	variable.
* buggy
	Breaks when there is not a 1:1 sequence of irq - napi_poll, such as
	when using SO_BUSY_POLL.
* unnecessary
	The purpose or irq_cnt is to reduce irq control writes when
	multiple work items result from one irq: the irq is re-enabled
	after all work is done.
	Analysis of the irq handler shows that there is only one case where
	there might be two workers scheduled at once, and those have
	separate irq masking bits.

Therefore, remove irq_cnt.

Additionally, we get a performance improvement:
perf stat -e cycles -a -r5 super_netperf 100 -H 192.168.33.1 -t TCP_RR

Before:
628560
628056
622103
622744
627202
[...]
   268,803,947,669      cycles                 ( +-  0.09% )

After:
636300
634106
634984
638555
634188
[...]
   259,237,291,449      cycles                 ( +-  0.19% )

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190927101210.23856-3-bpoirier@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-10-04 17:17:44 +02:00
arch csky-for-linus-5.4-rc1: arch/csky patches for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-30 10:16:17 -07:00
block block: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_rq_timed_out() 2019-09-27 07:01:25 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Documentation/process update for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-29 19:52:52 -07:00
drivers staging: qlge: Remove irq_cnt 2019-10-04 17:17:44 +02:00
fs for-5.4-rc1-tag 2019-09-30 10:25:24 -07:00
include A few more tracing fixes: 2019-09-30 09:29:53 -07:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel A few more tracing fixes: 2019-09-30 09:29:53 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-28 17:47:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'hugepage-fallbacks' (hugepatch patches from David Rientjes) 2019-09-28 14:26:47 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-28 17:47:33 -07:00
samples rpmsg updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:58:15 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity 2019-09-27 19:37:27 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-24 16:46:16 -07:00
tools A few more tracing fixes: 2019-09-30 09:29:53 -07:00
usr Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-28 17:47:33 -07:00
virt * s390: ioctl hardening, selftests 2019-09-18 09:49:13 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-09-18 12:34:53 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Update email address 2019-09-13 17:21:38 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS staging: wfx: add infrastructure for new driver 2019-10-04 10:26:51 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc1 2019-09-30 10:35:40 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.