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    r8169: remove the obsolete and incorrect AMD workaround · 5d0feaff
    Timo Teräs authored
    This was introduced in commit 6dccd16b "r8169: merge with version
    6.001.00 of Realtek's r8169 driver". I did not find the version
    6.001.00 online, but in 6.002.00 or any later r8169 from Realtek
    this hunk is no longer present.
    
    Also commit 05af2142 "r8169: fix Ethernet Hangup for RTL8110SC
    rev d" claims to have fixed this issue otherwise.
    
    The magic compare mask of 0xfffe000 is dubious as it masks
    parts of the Reserved part, and parts of the VLAN tag. But this
    does not make much sense as the VLAN tag parts are perfectly
    valid there. In matter of fact this seems to be triggered with
    any VLAN tagged packet as RxVlanTag bit is matched. I would
    suspect 0xfffe0000 was intended to test reserved part only.
    
    Finally, this hunk is evil as it can cause more packets to be
    handled than what was NAPI quota causing net/core/dev.c:
    net_rx_action(): WARN_ON_ONCE(work > weight) to trigger, and
    mess up the NAPI state causing device to hang.
    
    As result, any system using VLANs and having high receive
    traffic (so that NAPI poll budget limits rtl_rx) would result
    in device hang.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTimo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
    Acked-by: default avatarFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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