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From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: remove the obsolete and incorrect AMD workaround
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:09:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124080911.31d52da9@vostro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130123223834.GA5124@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:38:34 +0100 Francois Romieu
<romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:

> Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> :
> [...]
> > Actually, this sounds wrong. Why is rtl8169_rx_vlan_tag() which is
> > fiddling opts2 invoked *after* rtl8169_mark_to_asic() ? This means
> > it can overwrite the tag info if the queue is full.
> 
> Yes. It has been there for ages.
> 
> What about something like the patch below ?

Looks good as the minimum intrusion for stable branches. Though, I'm
wondering if it'd be easy to refactor rtl_rx() so that it would
not need that many goto labels.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21 15:12 r8169 doing more work than napi weight Timo Teras
2013-01-21 23:42 ` Francois Romieu
2013-01-22  8:30   ` [PATCH net] r8169: remove the obsolete and incorrect AMD workaround Timo Teräs
2013-01-23  0:05     ` Francois Romieu
2013-01-23  0:42       ` David Miller
2013-01-23  6:14       ` Timo Teras
2013-01-23 22:38         ` Francois Romieu
2013-01-24  6:09           ` Timo Teras [this message]
2013-01-23 18:52       ` David Miller

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