From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sky2: tx pause bug fix Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:13:38 -0400 Message-ID: <45056102.2010408@pobox.com> References: <20060906124447.642940bd@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:16818 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474AbWIKNNl (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:13:41 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20060906124447.642940bd@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Fix problems with transmit pause frames. The driver was telling the > GMAC to flush (not process) pause frames. Manually disabling pause wasn't > working because of problems in the setup. > > This maybe the cause of the lockup under load. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6839 > > Patch against netdev-2.6 git tree > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Is this for #upstream (2.6.19) or #upstream-fixes (2.6.18-rc)? It looks OK for #upstream, but too intrusive for #upstream-fixes. Jeff