netdev - Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: fix transmit of packages when blue frame is enabled

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Date:	Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:02:12 +0200
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>,
	"eli@....mellanox.co.il" <eli@....mellanox.co.il>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: fix transmit of packages when blue frame is
 enabled

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:53 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:

 .../...

> > Can you also send me the output of ethtool -i?
> > It seems that there is a problem with write combining on Power processors, we will check this issue.
> > 
> > Yevgeny
> 
> Hello, Yevgeny.
> 
> You will find the output of ethtool -i below.
> 
> I am copying Ben and powerpc list, in case this is an issue with Power
> processors. They can provide us some more insight into this.

May I get some background please ? :-)

I'm not aware of a specific issue with write combining but I'd need to
know more about what you are doing and the code to do it to comment on
whether it should work or not.

Cheers,
Ben.


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