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Date:	Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	antonz@...allels.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jcliburn@...il.com, csnook@...hat.com,
	khorenko@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] atl1: add napi to Atheros L1 NIC

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:03:46 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Tony Zelenoff <antonz@...allels.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:09:45 +0400
> 
>> Added NAPI interface to the driver of Atheros L1 NIC.
>> RX speed reported by iperf in TCP mode (with and without -N
>> switch) improved by ~7 Mbps. In UDP mode the speed up is
>> improved by ~4 Mbps.
>> Also hard RX/TX rings processing with memory allocation in
>> interrupt handlers is not very good idea. So, fixed this.
>> 
>> Note: thouse patches must be applied after patch, that fix
>> kernel panic in this driver.
>> Its subject is: "atl1: fix kernel panic in case of DMA errors"
> 
> Unfortunately this is bullshit.  These patches actually depend upon
> that bug fix not being applied.  Look at the patches, they reference
> and use the reset workqueue the bug fix removed.

My bad, I thought I had merged the net tree into net-next before
processing your patches but I didn't.

I just fixed this all up in the net-next tree, please double
check my work.

Thank you.
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