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SubjectRe: [PATCH] skge: fix occasional BUG during MTU change
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:36:23 +0200
>
> > The BUG_ON(skge->tx_ring.to_use != skge->tx_ring.to_clean) in skge_up()
> > was sometimes observed when setting MTU.
> >
> > skge_down() disables the TX queue, but then reenables it by mistake via
> > skge_tx_clean().
> > Fix it by moving the waking of the queue from skge_tx_clean() to the
> > other caller. And to make sure start_xmit is not in progress on another
> > CPU, skge_down() should call netif_tx_disable().
> >
> > The bug was reported to me by Jiri Jilek whose Debian system sometimes
> > failed to boot. He tested the patch and the bug did not happen anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
>
> Stephen, an ACK possibly?

I wanted to test on real hardware, and am offsite this week.


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