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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:06:47 +0200
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On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 22:55 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> This reverts commit 036dafa28da1e2565a8529de2ae663c37b7a0060.
>=20
> First it appears in bisection, then reverting it solves the usual
> netdev watchdog problem for different people. I don't have a proper
> fix yet so get rid of it.
>=20
> Bisected-and-reported-by: Alex Villac=C3=ADs Lasso <a_villacis@palosa=
nto.com>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
> ---

bisection is not always the right way to qualify a problem.

BQL in itself had some fixes coming _after_ commit 036dafa28da1e2565

Is there an easy way to reproduce the problem ?

Thanks