From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Auke Kok Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: add amd8131 to "write reorder" chipsets Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:21:38 -0700 Message-ID: <44AEC252.70209@intel.com> References: <20060707185831.GC22636@tuxdriver.com> <20060707.121220.99179918.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:48707 "EHLO orsmga101-1.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243AbWGGUa1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:30:27 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060707.121220.99179918.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: "John W. Linville" > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:58:36 -0400 > >> Add the AMD 8131 bridge to the list of chipsets that reorder writes. >> >> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > > What failure report is this chipset blacklist addition based > upon? I just want to look at the paper trail before adding > this. Moreover, since e1000 suffers from reordering/write-combining problems on the 8132, I'm starting to see an (ugly) pattern here. I didn't know that tg3 has a whole blacklist for this, could this affect other network cards as well? Auke