From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Tristram.Ha@Micrel.Com
Cc: ben@simtec.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32 2/3] net: Fix ks8851 snl transmit problem
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:03:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091203.160318.62214993.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14385191E87B904DBD836449AA30269D021A41@MORGANITE.micrel.com>
From: "Ha, Tristram" <Tristram.Ha@Micrel.Com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:17:48 -0800
> This fixes a transmit problem of the ks8851 snl network driver. Under heavy TCP traffic the device will stop transmitting. Turning off the transmit interrupt avoids this issue. A new workqueue was implemented to replace the functionality of the transmit interrupt processing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@micrel.com>
Please describe why the TX interrupt facility cannot be used.
You probably have a race condition or similar, have you tried
to see if there is some issue like that?
This workqueue is going to make performance terrible, at best.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-04 0:03 UTC|newest]
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2009-12-03 21:17 Ha, Tristram
2009-12-04 0:03 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-12-04 0:57 ` Ha, Tristram
2009-12-21 21:51 ` Ha, Tristram
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