e1000: convert hardware management from timers to threads
authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 07:24:41 +0000 (07:24 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:38:25 +0000 (22:38 -0700)
commita4010afef585b7142eb605e3a6e4210c0e1b2957
tree770fa2d71222702cae44fd730582b8937b958f43
parent19d478bbe690a37489f58843dec20a456573d89f
e1000: convert hardware management from timers to threads

Thomas Gleixner (tglx) reported that e1000 was delaying for many milliseconds
(using mdelay) from inside timer/interrupt context.  None of these paths are
performance critical and can be moved into threads/work items.  This patch
implements the work items and the next patch changes the mdelays to msleeps.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c