enetc: use napi_schedule to be compatible with PREEMPT_RT

The driver calls napi_schedule_irqoff() from a context where, in RT,
hardirqs are not disabled, since the IRQ handler is force-threaded.

In the call path of this function, __raise_softirq_irqoff() is modifying
its per-CPU mask of pending softirqs that must be processed, using
or_softirq_pending(). The or_softirq_pending() function is not atomic,
but since interrupts are supposed to be disabled, nobody should be
preempting it, and the operation should be safe.

Nonetheless, when running with hardirqs on, as in the PREEMPT_RT case,
it isn't safe, and the pending softirqs mask can get corrupted,
resulting in softirqs being lost and never processed.

To have common code that works with PREEMPT_RT and with mainline Linux,
we can use plain napi_schedule() instead. The difference is that
napi_schedule() (via __napi_schedule) also calls local_irq_save, which
disables hardirqs if they aren't already. But, since they already are
disabled in non-RT, this means that in practice we don't see any
measurable difference in throughput or latency with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiafei Pan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
index f50353cbb4db13ef61600dd6b9c8019bbe379760..f78ca7b343d23e339770868db19f8536813e313a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static irqreturn_t enetc_msix(int irq, void *data)
        for_each_set_bit(i, &v->tx_rings_map, ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS)
                enetc_wr_reg(v->tbier_base + ENETC_BDR_OFF(i), 0);
 
-       napi_schedule_irqoff(&v->napi);
+       napi_schedule(&v->napi);
 
        return IRQ_HANDLED;
 }