From: "Alex Villacís Lasso" <a_villacis@palosanto.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Thomas Pilarski <thomas.pi@arcor.de>,
Julien Ducourthial <jducourt@free.fr>,
Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negative value)
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 23:12:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA9EEAC.7010201@palosanto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120507234205.GA2230@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
El 07/05/12 18:42, Francois Romieu escribió:
> Julien Ducourthial<jducourt@free.fr> :
>> The r8169 may get stuck or show bad behaviour after activating TSO :
>> the net_device is not stopped when it has no more TX descriptors.
>> This problem comes from TX_BUFS_AVAIL which may reach -1 when all
>> transmit descriptors are in use. The patch simply tries to keep positive
>> values.
> It seems more than good.
>
> Alex, Thomas, can you check if Julien's patch below fixes your broken
> kernels as well ?
>
No luck. The backtrace still appears after using the patched driver.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 22:39 [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negative value) Julien Ducourthial
2012-05-07 23:42 ` Francois Romieu
2012-05-08 10:06 ` Francois Romieu
2012-05-08 10:21 ` Thomas Pilarski
2012-05-09 4:12 ` Alex Villacís Lasso [this message]
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