netdev - RE: [PATCH net 1/7] qlge: Fixed packet transmit errors due to potential driver errors.

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:33:37 -0700
From:	Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>,
	Dept-NX Linux NIC Driver 
	<Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@...gic.com>,
	"krkumar2@...ibm.com" <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net 1/7] qlge: Fixed packet transmit errors due to
 potential driver errors.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@...il.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:27 PM
>To: Jitendra Kalsaria
>Cc: David Miller; netdev; Ron Mercer; Dept-NX Linux NIC Driver
>Subject: RE: [PATCH net 1/7] qlge: Fixed packet transmit errors due to potential driver errors.
>
>On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:38 -0700, Jitendra Kalsaria wrote:
>
>I believe everybody kindly ask you to fix the driver logic instead
>of trying to hide to your customers the problems.
>
>In fact, you could just BUG() at this point, and maybe David will accept
>such a patch.
>
>testing atomic_read(&tx_ring->tx_count) at the beginning of qlge_send()
>is too late. NETDEV_TX_BUSY is deprecated.
>
>Well behaving drivers should perform the test at the end of their
>ndo_start_xmit() and stop the queue so that next packet wont come at
>all.

Thanks everyone and will definitely change the logic.