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Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 23:12:28 -0500 From: Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis@...osanto.com> To: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> CC: Thomas Pilarski <thomas.pi@...or.de>, Julien Ducourthial <jducourt@...e.fr>, Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negative value) El 07/05/12 18:42, Francois Romieu escribió: > Julien Ducourthial<jducourt@...e.fr> : >> The r8169 may get stuck or show bad behaviour after activating TSO : >> the net_device is not stopped when it has no more TX descriptors. >> This problem comes from TX_BUFS_AVAIL which may reach -1 when all >> transmit descriptors are in use. The patch simply tries to keep positive >> values. > It seems more than good. > > Alex, Thomas, can you check if Julien's patch below fixes your broken > kernels as well ? > No luck. The backtrace still appears after using the patched driver. -- 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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