netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:06:47 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hayeswang@...ltek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alex Villacís Lasso 
	<a_villacis@...osanto.com>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 22:55 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> This reverts commit 036dafa28da1e2565a8529de2ae663c37b7a0060.
> 
> First it appears in bisection, then reverting it solves the usual
> netdev watchdog problem for different people. I don't have a proper
> fix yet so get rid of it.
> 
> Bisected-and-reported-by: Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis@...osanto.com>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
> Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
> ---

bisection is not always the right way to qualify a problem.

BQL in itself had some fixes coming _after_ commit 036dafa28da1e2565

Is there an easy way to reproduce the problem ?

Thanks


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