From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:36:21 +0800
> David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > How can the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit be cleared externally yet we take
> > this list_move_tail() code path?
>
> His driver is probably buggy. When we had two drivers beginning
> with e100 we often forgot to apply fixes to the both of them. Now
> that we have three it's even more confusing.
>
> I just checked and indeed e1000e seems to be missing the NAPI fix
> that was applied to e1000. Of course it doesn't rule out the
> possibility of another NAPI bug in e1000.
Thanks for checking.
Indeed I stuck the huge comment there in net_rx_action() above the
list move to try and explain things to people, so that if you saw a
crash in the list manipulation, you're go check the driver first.
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