netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/8] vxge: Fix starvation of receive ring controller when blasted by short packets.

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Message-Id: <20100329.165750.258976081.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Sreenivasa.Honnur@...erion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, support@...erion.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/8] vxge: Fix starvation of receive ring
 controller when blasted by short packets.

From: Sreenivasa Honnur <Sreenivasa.Honnur@...erion.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:08:30 -0400 (EDT)

> - Fix starvation of receive ring controller when blasted by short packets. This was because the driver was posting 64 rxds initially while the ring controller 
> was expecting to read 256 replenished rxds. While the driver was coming up, 
> the internal rxd memory filled up the 64 buffers provided and the ring 
> controller was left waiting for the remaining 192 rxds to complete the write
> back of completed rxds to the host and generation of an interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@...erion.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@...erion.com>

Applied.
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