netdev - Re: tg3 appears to be sick in 2.6.33

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Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:52:42 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mcarlson@...adcom.com
Cc:	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jfeeney@...hat.com
Subject: Re: tg3 appears to be sick in 2.6.33

From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:42:22 -0800

> [PATCH] tg3: Fix std rx prod ring handling
> 
> There are some tg3 devices that require the driver to post new rx
> buffers in smaller increments.  Commit
> 4361935afe3abc3e5a93006b99197fac1fabbd50, "tg3: Consider
> rx_std_prod_idx a hw mailbox" changed how the driver tracks the rx
> producer ring updates, but it does not make any special considerations
> for the above-mentioned devices.  For those devices, it is possible for
> the driver to hit the special case path, which updates the hardware
> mailbox register but skips updating the shadow software mailbox member.
> If the special case path represents the final mailbox update for this
> ISR iteration, the hardware and software mailbox values will be out of
> sync.  Ultimately, this will cause the driver to use a stale mailbox
> value on the next iteration, which will appear to the hardware as a
> large rx buffer update.  Bad things ensue.
> 
> The fix is to update the software shadow mailbox member when the special
> case path is taken.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>

Matt, since we have positive testing, want me to apply this?

Thanks.
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