netdev - Re: [PATCH] natsemi: netpoll fixes

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:31:50 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	Mark Huth <mhuth@...sta.com>, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] natsemi: netpoll fixes

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:53:54PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> >confused and eventually locks up.  Before locking up it will usually
> >report one or more oversided packets so this is a useful hint that we
> >should reset the recieve state machine in order to recover from this.

>    That's all good by why we need to completely lose TX and other interrupts
> in the meantime? High inbound traffic doesn't necessarily mean a high 
> outbound one, does it?

While the code in the driver can cope if the chip takes a while to
respond to the reset as far as I have been able to tell in testing 
it does so close enough to immediately to avoid repeating the loop at
all.  The effect on transmit processing should be minimal.

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