r8169: remove member irq_enabled from struct rtl8169_private
After making use of the gro_flush_timeout attribute I once got a tx timeout due to an interrupt that wasn't handled. Seems using irq_enabled can be racy, and it's not needed any longer anyway, so remove it. I've never seen a report about such a race before, therefore treat the change as an improvement. There's just one small drawback: If a legacy PCI interrupt is used, and if this interrupt is shared with a device with high interrupt rate, then we may handle interrupts even if NAPI disabled them, and we may see a certain performance decrease under high network load. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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