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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9][TG3]: Add basic 5906 support.
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:03:44 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:21:01 -0700

> It was found that on rare occasions, the 5906 will miss the first
> interrupt after reset without the COALESCE_NOW.  It was also felt that
> other chips may also have this problem, and therefore it is a good and a
> safe thing to do for all chips using the tagged mode.
> 
> This call is only made after resetting the chip, and so there's no
> performance impact at all during run-time.

Thanks for the explanation.