linux-kernel - Re: [5/5] e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:41:02 +0200
From:   Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>
To:     Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@...fish-solutions.com>
Cc:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [5/5] e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts

On 2017/09/19 12:38, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We’ve been running this patchset (all 5) for about as long as they’ve been under review… about 2 months.  And in a burn-in lab with heavy traffic.
> 
> We’ve not seen a single link-flap in hundreds of ours of saturated traffic.
> 
> Would love to see some resolution soon on this as we don’t want to ship a release with unsanctioned patches.
> 
> Is there an estimate on when that might be?

The patches have been added to Jeff Kirsher's next-queue tree. I guess
they will be submitted for v4.15 which might be released in early
2018...
http://phb-crystal-ball.org/