netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/tg3: Avoid delay during MMIO access

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:01:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcarlson@...adcom.com,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/tg3: Avoid delay during MMIO access

From: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:24:32 +0800

> When the EEH error is the result of a fenced host bridge, MMIO accesses
> can be very slow (milliseconds) to timeout and return all 1's,
> thus causing the driver various timeout loops to take way too long and
> trigger soft-lockup warnings (in addition to taking minutes to recover).
> 
> It might be worthwhile to check if for any of these cases, ffffffff is
> a valid possible value, and if not, bail early since that means the HW
> is either gone or isolated. In the meantime, checking that the PCI channel
> is offline would be workaround of the problem.
> 
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v3.0+
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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