Re: [PATCH] e1000: Reset rx ring index on receive overrun

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Fri 18 May 2012 01:28:21 +0200, a écrit :
> Dave, Tushar N, le Thu 17 May 2012 23:22:31 +0000, a écrit :
> > I am interested in to see if you have actual test case and more importantly test data that shows that kernel and device indexes are not synchronized any more.
> 
> Well, it's not with an actual physical device, but with the kvm
> emulation.

BTW, it also happens easily when request_irq takes some time to
complete: since we enable E1000_TCTL_EN before that, the card can have
time to fill the ring before irqs are processed.

Samuel
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