netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	blogic@...nwrt.org
Cc:	nbd@...nwrt.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com, sean.wang@...iatek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests

From: John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2016 00:54:03 +0200

> While testing the driver we managed to get the TX path to stall and fail
> to recover. When dual MAC support was added to the driver, the whole queue
> stop/wake code was not properly adapted. There was also a regression in the
> locking of the xmit function. The fact that watchdog_timeo was not set and
> that the tx_timeout code failed to properly reset the dma, irq and queue
> just made the mess complete.
> 
> This series make the driver pass stress testing. With this series applied
> the testbed has been running for several days and still has not locked up.
> We have a second setup that has a small hack patch applied to randomly stop
> irqs and/or one of the queues and successfully manages to recover from these
> simulated tx stalls.

Series applied, thanks.