From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9][TG3]: Improve ASF heartbeat.
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:08:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159398527.3411.34.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927.160123.78711404.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 16:01 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> But what exactly is meant by "checking the ring condition"?
>
> Does it mean that if the ASF heartbeat times out, ASF will
> check to see if the TX and/or RX ring are still making forward
> progress and abort the reset if so?
>
Exactly. If the rx ring is not empty, it will check to see if the
consumer index of the rx ring is making forward progress.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 20:34 [PATCH 2/9][TG3]: Improve ASF heartbeat Michael Chan
2006-09-27 23:01 ` David Miller
2006-09-27 23:08 ` Michael Chan [this message]
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