netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] be2net: fix wrong frag

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:19:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sathya.perla@...lex.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] be2net: fix wrong frag_idx reported by RX CQ

From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:08:51 +0530

> The RX CQ can report completions with invalid frag_idx when the RXQ that
> was *previously* using it, was not cleaned up properly. This hits
> a BUG_ON() in be2net.
> 
> When completion coalescing is enabled on a CQ, an explicit CQ-notify
> (with rearm) is needed for each compl, to flush partially coalesced CQ
> entries that are pending DMA.
> 
> In be_close(), this fix now notifies CQ for each compl, waits explicitly
> for the flush compl to arrive and complains if it doesn't arrive.
> 
> Also renaming be_crit_error() to be_hw_error() as it's the more
> appropriate name and to convey that we don't wait for the flush compl
> only when a HW error has occurred.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>

Applied.
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