From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [TG3] Always load TSO firmware
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:41:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBCFCBD.5060609@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120092530.4dfe9016.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:56:05 +1100
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>
>>OK, I've cross-checked with the Broadcom drivers and the problem seems
>>to be specific to 5705 A1 which is the chipset in question.
>>
>>The Broadcom drivers limit the number of rx descriptors to 63 while
>>tg3.c only limits it to 64. It has been confirmed that lowering
>>the limit makes the problem go away.
>>
>>Here is the patch.
>
>
> Great work.
>
> Jeff, please push this around. I think it's serious enough for
> 2.4.23-rcX personally.
Will do, though I first need to check and see if non-power-of-two has
any implications in the implementation...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 9:32 [TG3] Always load TSO firmware Herbert Xu
2003-11-17 20:38 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-20 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] ` <20031120092530.4dfe9016.davem@redhat.com>
2003-11-20 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-11-20 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
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