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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:39:10 -0600
From:   Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@...fish-solutions.com>
To:     Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:     Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [5/5] e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts


> On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:41:02PM +0200, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>> On 2017/09/19 12:38, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> We’ve been running this patchset (all 5) for about as long as they’ve been under review… about 2 months.  And in a burn-in lab with heavy traffic.
>>> 
>>> We’ve not seen a single link-flap in hundreds of ours of saturated traffic.
>>> 
>>> Would love to see some resolution soon on this as we don’t want to ship a release with unsanctioned patches.
>>> 
>>> Is there an estimate on when that might be?
>> 
>> The patches have been added to Jeff Kirsher's next-queue tree. I guess
>> they will be submitted for v4.15 which might be released in early
>> 2018...
>> http://phb-crystal-ball.org/
> 
> And then they will be submitted to linux-stable so this long standing
> regression can be fixed, right?
> 


Let’s hope!

-Philip

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