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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enic: fix TX hang when number of packets >
	queue size
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:29:30 +0200
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2016-03-25 17:43, John Daley:
> If the nb_pkts parameter to rte_eth_tx_burst() was greater than
> the TX descriptor count, a completion was not being requested
> from the NIC, so descriptors would not be released back to the
> host causing a lock-up.
> 
> Introduce a limit of how many TX descriptors can be used in a single
> call to the enic PMD burst TX function before requesting a completion.
> 
> Fixes: d739ba4c6abf ("enic: improve Tx packet rate")
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>

Applied, thanks