Re: [PATCH REPOST] IB/ehca: In case of lost interrupts, trigger EOI to reenable interrupts

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 04:38:46 EST


Roland Dreier writes:

> > > So just to be clear: this is a workaround for a hardware/firmware bug?
>
> > Yes it is.
>
> OK, so paulus et al... does it seem like a good approach to call H_EOI
> from driver code (given that this driver makes tons of other hcalls)?

If this workaround is approved by the relevant hardware & firmware
folks, and demonstrably fixes the bug, then I am happy with it.

Paul.
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