linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: ftgmac100: Fix missing TX-poll issue

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:21:17 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Dylan Hung <dylan_hung@...eedtech.com>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>
Cc:     BMC-SW <BMC-SW@...eedtech.com>,
        linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@...aday-tech.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ftgmac100: Fix missing TX-poll issue

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 13:08 +0000, Dylan Hung wrote:
> The issue was found on our test chip (ast2600 version A0) which is
> just for testing and won't be mass-produced.  This HW bug has been
> fixed on ast2600 A1 and later versions.
> 
> To verify the HW fix, I run overnight iperf and kvm tests on
> ast2600A1 without this patch, and get stable result without hanging.
> So I think we can discard this patch.

This is great news. Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.