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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] sfc: Improve reliability of RX queue flushing
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:13 +0100

> Reconfiguring the port requires us to flush all DMA queues.  In
> repeated testing we have found that RX flushes would sometimes fail
> because the RX DMA engine was not properly isolated from the MACs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Applied.