netdev - Re: [net v2 0/3][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-01-06

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:43:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net v2 0/3][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2015-01-06

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue,  6 Jan 2015 17:31:54 -0800

> This series contains fixes to i40e only.
> 
> Jesse provides a fix for when the driver was polling with interrupts
> disabled the hardware would occasionally not write back descriptors.
> His fix causes the driver to detect this situation and force an interrupt
> to fire which will flush the stuck descriptor.
> 
> Anjali provides a couple of fixes, the first corrects an issue where
> the receive port checksum error counter was incrementing incorrectly with
> UDP encapsulated tunneled traffic.  The second fix resolves an issue where
> the driver was examining the outer protocol layer to set the inner protocol
> layer checksum offload.  In the case of TCP over IPv6 over an IPv4 based
> VXLAN, the inner checksum offloads would be set to look for IPv4/UDP
> instead of IPv6/TCP, so fixed the issue so that the driver will look at
> the proper layer for encapsulation offload settings.
> 
> v2: fixed a bug in patch 01 of the series, where the interrupt rate impacted
>     4 port workloads by reducing throughput.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.
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