On 18.10.2018 07:21, David Miller wrote:
> From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 01:30:45 +0200
>
>> Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]> :
>> [...]
>>> This issue has been there more or less forever (at least it exists in
>>> 3.16 already), so I can't provide a "Fixes" tag.
>>
>> Hardly forever. It fixes da78dbff2e05630921c551dbbc70a4b7981a8fff.
>
> I don't see exactly how that can be true.
>
> That commit didn't change the parts of the NAPI poll processing which
> are relevant here, mainly the guarding of the RX and TX work using
> the status bits which are cleared.
>
AFAICS Francois is right and patch da78dbff2e05 ("r8169: remove work
from irq handler") introduced the guarding of RX and TX work.
I just checked back to 3.16 as oldest LTS kernel version.
> Maybe I'm missing something? If so, indeed it would be nice to add
> a proper Fixes: tag here.
>
Shall I submit a v2 including the Fixes line?
> Thanks!
>
