netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/7] sfc: Improve reliability of RX queue flushing

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Message-Id: <20090826.180425.143307681.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] sfc: Improve reliability of RX queue flushing

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:13 +0100

> Reconfiguring the port requires us to flush all DMA queues.  In
> repeated testing we have found that RX flushes would sometimes fail
> because the RX DMA engine was not properly isolated from the MACs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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