Re: [PATCH REPOST] IB/ehca: In case of lost interrupts, trigger EOI to reenable interrupts

From: Stefan Roscher
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 11:02:17 EST


On Tuesday 10 June 2008 16:52:57 Roland Dreier wrote:
> > During corner case testing, we noticed that some versions of ehca
> > do not properly transition to interrupt done in special load situations.
> > This can be resolved by periodically triggering EOI through H_EOI,
> > if eqes are pending.
>
> So just to be clear: this is a workaround for a hardware/firmware bug?
>
> - R.
>

Yes it is.
regards Stefan
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