netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] enic: do hang reset only in case of tx timeout

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2015 03:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	_govind@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] enic: do hang reset only in case of tx
 timeout

From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2015 14:18:47 +0530

> The current code invokes hang reset in case of error interrupt. We should
> hang reset only in case of tx timeout. This because of the way hang reset
> is implemented in firmware. Hang reset takes more firmware resources than
> soft reset. Adaptor does not generate error interrupt in case of tx
> timeout.
> 
> Hang reset only in case of tx timeout, in .ndo_tx_timeout. Do soft reset
> otherwise. Introduce deferred work, enic_tx_hang_reset, to do hang reset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>

Applied.
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