Spirit network driver: Restructure threading to reduce locking. Still get a few RX FIFO errors.

2026-06-07 01:05:54 +08:00 · 2017-08-06 08:26:51 -06:00
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@@ -498,3 +498,9 @@ Configuration sub-directories
        a problem when packets are received from multiple sources at high rates:
        New incoming packets appear to cause RX FIFO errors and the driver does
        not recover well.
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+      2017-08-06:  The RX FIFO errors are worse when debug is enabled.  This led
+        me to believe that the cause of the RX FIFO errors was due to too many
+        interactions by the LP and HP work queue.  I restructured the tasking to
+        reduce the amount of interlocking, but this did not eliminate the RX FIFO
+        errors.