netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2: fixing a timout error due not refreshing TX timers correctly

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Message-Id: <20091218.203545.35041581.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:35:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: fixing a timout error due not refreshing TX
 timers correctly

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:33:30 -0800

> 
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 04:09 -0800, leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>> When running the following script on an active bnx2 interface:
>> 
>> while(true); do ifconfig ethX mtu 9000; ifconfig ethX mtu 1500; done
>> 
>> A timeout error appears and dumps the following stack:
>> 
>> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4 (bnx2): transmit queue 0 timed out
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> Badness at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261
>> <snip>
>> 
>> This patch just fixes the way that ->trans_start is refreshed.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Thanks.  Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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