mwl8k: keep TX_DONE interrupt masked while transmit reclaim is running
By making use of the CLEAR_SEL feature of the mwl8k host interface interrupt controller, we can keep the TX_DONE interrupt source masked while the transmit reclaim tasklet is running (NAPI style) without having to touch the interrupt controller's interrupt mask register when entering or exiting polling mode, and without having to do any more register reads/writes than we do now. When CLEAR_SEL is enabled on the TX_DONE interrupt source, reading the interrupt status register will clear the TX_DONE status bit if it was set, allowing it to be set again if a new TX_DONE event arrives while we are running the TX reclaim tasklet, but such a new event will then not trigger another PCI interrupt until a zero is written to the TX_DONE interrupt status register bit. I.e., if we write a zero to the TX_DONE interrupt source bit in the interrupt status register when the TX reclaim tasklet thinks it's done, a PCI interrupt will be triggered if a new TX_DONE event arrived from the hardware between us deciding that there is no more work to do and re-enabling the TX_DONE interrupt source, thereby avoiding the classic NAPI poll mode exit race that would otherwise occur. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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