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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/8139too.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/8139too.c b/drivers/net/8139too.c index 120baaa9075..d2102a27d30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/8139too.c +++ b/drivers/net/8139too.c @@ -1598,13 +1598,19 @@ static void rtl8139_thread (void *_data) { struct net_device *dev = _data; struct rtl8139_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev); + unsigned long thr_delay; if (rtnl_shlock_nowait() == 0) { rtl8139_thread_iter (dev, tp, tp->mmio_addr); rtnl_unlock (); + + thr_delay = next_tick; + } else { + /* unlikely race. mitigate with fast poll. */ + thr_delay = HZ / 2; } - schedule_delayed_work(&tp->thread, next_tick); + schedule_delayed_work(&tp->thread, thr_delay); } static void rtl8139_start_thread(struct rtl8139_private *tp) |