From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wendy xiong Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Work around 82571 completion timout on Pseries HW Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:44:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1179438245.25390.8.camel@wendyx.austin.ibm.com> References: <464CC378.5070409@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wen Xiong , Christoph Hellwig , Auke Kok , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kumar Gala , netdev@vger.kernel.org, wendyx@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:37326 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754892AbXEQVoI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 17:44:08 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4HLi738019917 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:44:07 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l4HLi7mN511720 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:44:07 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l4HLi60N024399 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:44:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <464CC378.5070409@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Wen Xiong wrote: > > Here there are not hardware issue on both Intel or PPC. The patch is to > > work around a loop hold on early version of PCI SGI spec. > > The later PCI Sgi have spec have corrected it. We can just implement it > > for PPC only. Other vendor may have the same issue. > > > If it is not a PPC-specific issue, then we should not limit it to PPC. > > Jeff > > Hi Jeff, We have tested the patch on PowerPC CEC and IO drawers. We really want to fix this for PPC. If you can accept for vendors, we are ok. Thanks for your help! wendy