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From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com>, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] natsemi: netpoll fixes
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:31:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070313193149.GA27175@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F6ACF2.2050300@ru.mvista.com>

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:53:54PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> >confused and eventually locks up.  Before locking up it will usually
> >report one or more oversided packets so this is a useful hint that we
> >should reset the recieve state machine in order to recover from this.

>    That's all good by why we need to completely lose TX and other interrupts
> in the meantime? High inbound traffic doesn't necessarily mean a high 
> outbound one, does it?

While the code in the driver can cope if the chip takes a while to
respond to the reset as far as I have been able to tell in testing 
it does so close enough to immediately to avoid repeating the loop at
all.  The effect on transmit processing should be minimal.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-13 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05 20:10 [PATCH] natsemi: netpoll fixes Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-05 22:41 ` Mark Brown
2007-03-05 22:43 ` Mark Brown
2007-03-06  4:10   ` Mark Huth
2007-03-10 20:25     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-11 12:16       ` Mark Brown
2007-03-12 13:05         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-12 19:11           ` Mark Brown
2007-03-13 13:53             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-13 19:31               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2007-03-12 19:12           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-12 19:05         ` Mark Huth
2007-03-13  0:14           ` Mark Brown
2007-03-13 13:45             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-06 11:10 ` Jeff Garzik

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