Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negativevalue)

[Alex Villacís Lasso]

El 07/05/12 18:42, Francois Romieu escribió:
> Julien Ducourthial<jducourt@xxxxxxx>  :
> > The r8169 may get stuck or show bad behaviour after activating TSO :
> > the net_device is not stopped when it has no more TX descriptors.
> > This problem comes from TX_BUFS_AVAIL which may reach -1 when all
> > transmit descriptors are in use. The patch simply tries to keep positive
> > values.
> It seems more than good.
>
> Alex, Thomas, can you check if Julien's patch below fixes your broken
> kernels as well ?
No luck. The backtrace still appears after using the patched driver.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/