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From: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix loss of multicast packets
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:05:19 -0500
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jesse Brandeburg
<jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> This driver fix prepares an array all at once in memory and programs it in
> one shot to the hardware, not requiring an "erase" cycle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> CC: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@gmail.com>

Jesse, I just with this patch in my e1000 environment and it works
great.  Almost 1,000,000 packets exchanged with active
membership join/drops going on and no packets lost.  Thanks
for the fast turnaround.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave B