Am 28.09.2013 21:50, schrieb Aaro Koskinen:
> Currently the driver assumes that CPU 0 is handling all the hard IRQs.
> This is wrong in Linux SMP systems where user is allowed to assign to
> hardware IRQs to any CPU. The driver will stop working if user sets
> smp_affinity so that interrupts end up being handled by other than CPU
> 0. The patch fixes that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi>
> ---
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
> b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
> index e14a1bb..de831c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ struct cvm_oct_core_state {
>
> static struct cvm_oct_core_state core_state __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
>
> +static int cvm_irq_cpu = -1;
Why are you introducing a new global variable here?
Can't you pass cvm_irq_cpu as argument to cvm_oct_enable_napi()?
Thanks,
//richard
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