From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Subject: Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-09-28 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:33:54 -0700 Message-ID: <1443486834.2864.1.camel@intel.com> References: <1443468800-37102-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-y8OiL14+OldNjWAnr+Jd" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com, john.ronciak@intel.com To: davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:46540 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754457AbbI2Afn (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:35:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1443468800-37102-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-y8OiL14+OldNjWAnr+Jd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:33 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > This series contains updates to i40e, i40evf and igb to resolve > issues > seen and reported by Red Hat. >=20 > Kiran moves i40e_get_head() in preparation for the refactor of the Tx > timeout logic, so that it can be used in other areas of the driver. > Refactored the driver timeout logic by issuing a writeback request > via > a software interrupt to the hardware the first time the driver > detects > a hang. This was due to the driver being too aggressive in resetting > a > hung queue. >=20 > Shannon adds the GRE protocol to the transmit checksum encoding. >=20 > Anjali fixes an issue of forcing writeback too often, which caused us > to > not benefit from NAPI. We now disable force writeback in the clean > routine for X710 and XL710 adapters. The X722 adapters do not enable > interrupt to force a writeback and benefit from WB_ON_ITR and so > force > WB is left enabled for those adapters. >=20 > Stefan Assmann provides a fix for igb where SR-IOV was not getting > enabled properly and we ran into a NULL pointer if the max_vfs module > parameter is specified. This is prevented by setting the > IGB_FLAG_HAS_MSIX bit before calling igb_probe_vfs(). >=20 > The following are changes since commit > 34c2d9fb0498c066afbe610b15e18995fd8be792: > bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled > and are available in the git repository at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue > master I need to add one more patch to this series from Anjali which resolves a possible deadlock issue. So v2 of the series is coming shortly. --=-y8OiL14+OldNjWAnr+Jd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABCgAGBQJWCdxyAAoJEOVv75VaS+3OfhAP/jBgn3uIzirCd+PIEBiXreqE X2O+QBcoZgHtap/AtWmmYRScAr0HNbq1CFwIRTU+31/RDn1QFJOFKxHoaJeDclHD WFgxdc2CvDzIWg2SrfFk5gAUzWON9if6joE8jVzEALRTHAS1GI7Xc9WBZsJa+mVF vMMvTRTGqqBvGYFz4N9MmMRYag9TVWYiitBYB/xtktKOVZ57wFS/6VkZQQE7HMtX odT9oXOzEI9UmY1nUOUF9D1p1+MKzHfpETRymcWr3lQOYdedhNdn04BQAQbtX2sc bUgZZdMwYZ1pFoKmcFFCNzBmnWAuPk0zfpdS8lCN3uaHzYnpt4/S3xrjDf+Q6d5a j6Kk81thG5bi/16DHhQGSPXSUyIDX4dcS4uwPcEHUdKBR7RefHJDXVEsyMEllvdy E4cBkW1tgMXxD2prlsB5dhtdBbW5X0efpl39GPhSa2UooYNWTJrK2YcpJc+cuuT4 0yXn/z9AuMjNB9OA+o9QVjgaTCAm0FreJ3SAgT/PkCy6XRQeFk4myh1ut/gq2l3/ ZmGfpqiWkNbJvsaTZAk6SkCR90sLKTl6plvV3Z/SRnQAuCJcS/qKJITQJxxEfKtD 8nlWFI7IVoQAWpVGUJr1dSt31bgf/6SGcIfy3asr4oc8dX4D2rUm1CVUSEt6Diy6 tzFMKdgS6MZULBPgINHo =BJkA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-y8OiL14+OldNjWAnr+Jd--