It has been noticed that under stress the lan743x driver will sometimes hang or cause a kernel panic. It has been noticed that returning '0' instead of 'weight' fixes this issue.
fixes: rare kernel panic under heavy traffic load. Signed-off-by: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whiteh...@microchip.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c index 867cddb..ca33ade 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c @@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ static int lan743x_tx_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int weight) netif_wake_queue(adapter->netdev); } - if (!napi_complete_done(napi, weight)) + if (!napi_complete_done(napi, 0)) goto done; /* enable isr */ @@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ static int lan743x_tx_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int weight) lan743x_csr_read(adapter, INT_STS); done: - return weight; + return 0; } static void lan743x_tx_ring_cleanup(struct lan743x_tx *tx) -- 2.7.4