From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100906.183539.241915973.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1283645879.1672.2.camel@corey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, James@superbug.co.uk To: kernel@teksavvy.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41002 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755831Ab0IGBfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:35:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1283645879.1672.2.camel@corey> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Mark Lord Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:17:59 -0400 > This patch is a simplified version of the original patch from James Courtier-Dutton. > >>From: James Courtier-Dutton >>Subject: [PATCH] Fix b44 RX FIFO overflow recovery. >>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:11 pm >> >>This patch improves the recovery after a RX FIFO overflow on the b44 >>Ethernet NIC. >>Before it would do a complete chip reset, resulting is loss of link >>for a few seconds. >>This patch improves this to do recovery in about 20ms without loss of link. >> >>Signed off by: James@superbug.co.uk > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord Applied, thanks Mark.