netdev - Re: [PATCH] ep93xx_eth stopps receiving packets

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Date:	Mon, 03 May 2010 23:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	buytenh@...tstofly.org
Cc:	stefan@...er.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ep93xx_eth stopps receiving packets

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 03:46:07 +0200

> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:42:44PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> 
>> Receiving small packet(s) in a fast pace leads to not receiving any
>> packets at all after some time.
>> 
>> After ethernet packet(s) arrived the receive descriptor is incremented
>> by the number of frames processed. If another packet arrives while
>> processing, this is processed in another call of ep93xx_rx. This
>> second call leads that too many receive descriptors getting released.
>> 
>> This fix increments, even in these case, the right number of processed
>> receive descriptors.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
> 
> I haven't opened my ep93xx docs for a while, but if this works for you:
> 
> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>

I had to apply this by hand because Stefan's email client corrupted the
spacing et al. in the patch.  Stefan please post a usable patch next
time.
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