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Commit 9b471446 authored by Jesse Brandeburg's avatar Jesse Brandeburg Committed by David S. Miller
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ixgbe: use EIAM to automask MSI-X



when disabling interrupts, driver was writing with IO, this is no
necessary because on ixgbe parts the hardware can "oneshot"
disable and clear the interrupt.  So on 82598/82599 use of EIAM
should avoid one posted write per interrupt when in MSI-X mode.
This should improve performance and seems to in my limited
testing, reduce CPU utilization VERY slightly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7ca3bc58
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