Thanks again Sudarsana for the good review and advice. I'll send V4 soon.
Discussions about your points are in-line below:
On 27/06/2019 07:09, Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru wrote:
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>> [...]
>> if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP)) {
>> if (!(bp->flags & TX_TIME
PATCH V3] bnx2x: Prevent ptp_task to be rescheduled
> indefinitely
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> Currently bnx2x ptp worker tries to read a register with timestamp
> information in case of TX packet time
Currently bnx2x ptp worker tries to read a register with timestamp
information in case of TX packet timestamping and in case it fails,
the routine reschedules itself indefinitely. This was reported as a
kworker always at 100% of CPU usage, which was narrowed down to be
bnx2x ptp_task.
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