netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:27:30 +0100
From:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:24 +0100, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> I found that one of the 8168c chipsets (concretely XID 1c4000c0) starts
> generating RxFIFO overflow errors. The result is an infinite loop in
> interrupt handler as the RxFIFOOver is handled only for ...MAC_VER_11.
> With the workaround everything goes fine.
...of course starts generating RxFIFO overflow errors under very high
load. :-)

Ivan

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