netdev - Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

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Message-Id: <20080116.232037.261622584.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:20:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Cc:	slavon@...telecom.ru, elendil@...net.nl, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:09:47 -0800

> We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues
> without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue
> testing it.  Given the simplicity of the changes, and the community
> testing, I'll give my ack and we will continue testing.

You need a slow CPU, and you need to make sure you do actually
trigger the TX limiting code there.

I bet your cpus are fast enough that it simply never triggers.
:-)

> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>

Thanks for reviewing Jesse.
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