Re: regression: forcedeth.c hang

[Ingo Molnar]

update: Jeff sent me 3 pending forcedeth.c fixes, and they indeed fix 
the regression. The one that fixed it is:

----------------->
The napi poll routine was missing the call to the optimized rx process 
routine. This patch adds the missing call for the optimized path.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- orig/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2007-02-20 03:17:21.000000000 -0500
+++ new/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2007-02-20 03:28:31.000000000 -0500
@@ -3104,13 +3104,17 @@
 	struct fe_priv *np = netdev_priv(dev);
 	u8 __iomem *base = get_hwbase(dev);
 	unsigned long flags;
+	int retcode;
 
-	if (np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_1 || np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_2)
+	if (np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_1 || np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_2) {
 		pkts = nv_rx_process(dev, limit);
-	else
+		retcode = nv_alloc_rx(dev);
+	} else {
 		pkts = nv_rx_process_optimized(dev, limit);
+		retcode = nv_alloc_rx_optimized(dev);
+	}
 
-	if (nv_alloc_rx(dev)) {
+	if (retcode) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&np->lock, flags);
 		if (!np->in_shutdown)
 			mod_timer(&np->oom_kick, jiffies + OOM_REFILL);

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