netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/9] bnx2x: Rx work check

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Message-Id: <20080825.152100.38360120.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eilong@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] bnx2x: Rx work check

From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:24:25 +0300

> The has Rx work check was wrong: when the FW was at the end of the page,
> the driver was already at the beginning of the next page. Since the
> check only validated that both driver and FW are pointing to the same
> place, it concluded that there is still work to be done. This caused
> some serious issues including long latency results on ping-pong test and
> lockups while unloading the driver in that condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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