netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] 8139cp: Improve accuracy of cp_interrupt() return, to survive IRQ storms

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:45:30 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, romieu@...zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] 8139cp: Improve accuracy of cp_interrupt() return,
 to survive IRQ storms

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 10:58 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:14:09 +0100
> 
> > But sure, for now I'll drop this from the series and I can try to
> > convince you separately.
> 
> Yes, let's discuss this independantly to the nice bug fixing
> that's happening in the rest of this series.

Since you explicitly call them 'bug fixes'... I suppose the last patch
in the latest series (enabling the various offloads by default) isn't a
bug fix and should be held back for net-next.

I think I can live with pushing the rest for the net tree. Just to
recap, the series is:

      8139cp: Do not re-enable RX interrupts in cp_tx_timeout()
      8139cp: Fix tx_queued debug message to print correct slot numbers
      8139cp: Fix TSO/scatter-gather descriptor setup
      8139cp: Reduce duplicate csum/tso code in cp_start_xmit()
      8139cp: Fix DMA unmapping of transmitted buffers
      8139cp: Dump contents of descriptor ring on TX timeout
      8139cp: Enable offload features by default

The penultimate patch is also not strictly a bug fix, but it's only
adding additional diagnostics to a code path which was already broken 
until I fixed it anyway, so I can live with that in net although I'll
also be happy if you want to defer it.

The fourth patch which removes the three duplicate versions of the
csum/tso checks might also be deferrable but really, it's *also*
fixing the failure mode when we see an inappropriate CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
packet, and it's touching a code path which I've *also* fixed in this
patch set. So it might as well stay.

I can shuffle things around if you disagree, but assuming Francois
concurs I'd suggest merging patches 1-6 (or just pulling from
git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/linux-8139cp.git fixes-only)
and then I'll resubmit the last patch some time later, after you
next pull net into net-next.

Otherwise, please let me know if/how you'd like me to reorganise it.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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