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Message-ID: <91bdcedb0903240426y47e200fajfecbb7088e75427@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:26:18 -0500
From: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@...il.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix loss of multicast packets
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeff Kirsher
<jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:09 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>> --
>
> Yes, I have it in my queue. It should be in the next series of fixes
> I will be sending out.
At the risk of seeming demanding, an e1000e version as well? That's
actually where the problem first showed up.
Thanks,
--
Dave B
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