netdev - Re: b44: Reset due to FIFO overflow.

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:20:33 +0100
From:	James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, erblichs@...thlink.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b44: Reset due to FIFO overflow.

On 30 June 2010 21:22, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:17:59 +0100
>
>> Interesting, which hardware, apart from the b44, is it that "requires"
>> a hardware reset after a RX FIFO overflow.
>
> This problem is quite common, actually.
>
> Even though it shouldn't be, this is seemingly one of the least tested
> paths of a networking chip.
>
> You'd think the recovery would be easy, flush the fifos and drop the
> packet, then rewind the RX descriptor pointer.
>
> But it's not and I've seen everything from RX descriptor corruption
> to random DMA splats elsewhere corrupting memory entirely, as a result
> of a networking card taking a RX fifo overflow.
>

Well, I have just written a patch (see other thread) to try and reset
the FIFO instead of a complete HW reset.
How do I know if I have RX descriptor corruption, or random DMA splats?
I have not detected any problems so far.
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