The idea when this first came up was to skip the sleeping part of
disable_irq():
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=142314159626052
This fell off my todolist and I didn't send the conversion patches,
which would basically look like this:
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 41f32c0b341e..b022691e680b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -6713,20 +6713,20 @@ static irqreturn_t e1000_intr_msix(int __always_unused irq, void *data)
vector = 0;
msix_irq = adapter->msix_entries[vector].vector;
- disable_irq(msix_irq);
- e1000_intr_msix_rx(msix_irq, netdev);
+ if (disable_hardirq(msix_irq))
+ e1000_intr_msix_rx(msix_irq, netdev);
enable_irq(msix_irq);
vector++;
msix_irq = adapter->msix_entries[vector].vector;
- disable_irq(msix_irq);
- e1000_intr_msix_tx(msix_irq, netdev);
+ if (disable_hardirq(msix_irq))
+ e1000_intr_msix_tx(msix_irq, netdev);
enable_irq(msix_irq);
vector++;
msix_irq = adapter->msix_entries[vector].vector;
- disable_irq(msix_irq);
- e1000_msix_other(msix_irq, netdev);
+ if (disable_hardirq(msix_irq))
+ e1000_msix_other(msix_irq, netdev);
enable_irq(msix_irq);
}
@@ -6750,13 +6750,13 @@ static void e1000_netpoll(struct net_device *netdev)
e1000_intr_msix(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
break;
case E1000E_INT_MODE_MSI:
- disable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
- e1000_intr_msi(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
+ if (disable_hardirq(adapter->pdev->irq))
+ e1000_intr_msi(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
enable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
break;
default: /* E1000E_INT_MODE_LEGACY */
- disable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
- e1000_intr(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
+ if (disable_hardirq(adapter->pdev->irq))
+ e1000_intr(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
enable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
br
ak;
}