netdev - Re: [patch sungem] improved locking

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Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:15:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	eric.lemoine@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch sungem] improved locking

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:59:06 +1100

> Patched driver's been running fine for a couple of days & nights with
> constant beating... just those RX MAC fifo overflows every now and then
> (though they cause no data corruption and no big hit on the driver perfs
> neither). I suppose still worth investigating when I have a bit of time,
> I must have done something stupid with the pause settings.
> 
> In the meantime, Eric's patch is all good.

Thanks for testing this stuff.

I'll take a look at the pause-enabling issue in the sungem
drive then work on integrating Eric's patch.

Probably we'll need to put this in post-2.6.20 as the merge
window is closed.
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