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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:13 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com Subject: [PATCH 6/7] sfc: Improve reliability of RX queue flushing Reconfiguring the port requires us to flush all DMA queues. In repeated testing we have found that RX flushes would sometimes fail because the RX DMA engine was not properly isolated from the MACs. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> --- drivers/net/sfc/efx.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c index d4dc920..07a7e4b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c @@ -1179,6 +1179,8 @@ static void efx_stop_all(struct efx_nic *efx) /* Isolate the MAC from the TX and RX engines, so that queue * flushes will complete in a timely fashion. */ + falcon_deconfigure_mac_wrapper(efx); + msleep(10); /* Let the Rx FIFO drain */ falcon_drain_tx_fifo(efx); /* Stop the kernel transmit interface late, so the watchdog -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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