netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix loss of multicast packets

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Message-Id: <20090323.010957.163908188.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	daveboutcher@...il.com
Cc:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix loss of multicast packets

From: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:05:19 -0500

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jesse Brandeburg
> <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> wrote:
> > From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> > This driver fix prepares an array all at once in memory and programs it in
> > one shot to the hardware, not requiring an "erase" cycle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> > CC: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@...il.com>
> 
> Jesse, I just with this patch in my e1000 environment and it works
> great.  Almost 1,000,000 packets exchanged with active
> membership join/drops going on and no packets lost.  Thanks
> for the fast turnaround.

Thanks for testing Dave.

Intel folks, can we get this formally submitted soon?

Thanks.
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