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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
	bphilips@novell.com, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [stable-2.6.32 PATCH] igb: rx_fifo_errors counter fix
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:19:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005231948.GA21504@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101005230407.24172.84596.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:04:09PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> 
> Alexey Vlasov reported insane rx_queue_drop_packet_count
> (rx_fifo_errors) values.
> 
> IGB drivers is doing an accumulation for 82575, instead using a zero
> value for rqdpc_total.
> 
> Reported-by: Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c |    5 ++---

Why isn't this needed in Linus's tree?  If it is in Linus's tree, what
is the git commit id?

Is it needed in .35?  Please, more context...

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05 23:04 [stable-2.6.32 PATCH] igb: rx_fifo_errors counter fix Jeff Kirsher
2010-10-05 23:14 ` David Miller
2010-10-05 23:19 ` Greg KH [this message]

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