e1000e: clearing interrupt timers causes descriptors to get flushed

Clearing the interrupt timers following an IMS clear has the unwanted
side-effect of flushing all descriptors immediately following a partial
write when interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 3caa1d5893c4..3845fb698b4d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -2441,8 +2441,6 @@ static void e1000_configure_rx(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
                 ew32(ITR, 1000000000 / (adapter->itr * 256));
 
         ctrl_ext = er32(CTRL_EXT);
-        /* Reset delay timers after every interrupt */
-        ctrl_ext |= E1000_CTRL_EXT_INT_TIMER_CLR;
         /* Auto-Mask interrupts upon ICR access */
         ctrl_ext |= E1000_CTRL_EXT_IAME;
         ew32(IAM, 0xffffffff);