From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 03:48:47 -0700
> This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf only. > > Jesse provides a couple of fixes, starting with cleaning up duplicate > lines of code. Fixed a missing line which enables RSS as a negotiated > feature. Since the VF does not have any way of reporting FCoE enabled, > so just force the code to always report FCoE as disabled. > > Jake provides several fixes and changes, starting with fixing a race > condition in i40e. The hardware has a limitation on transmit PTP packets, > which requires us to limit the driver to timestamping a single packet at > once. This is done using a state bitlock which enforces that only one > timestamp request is honored at a time, unfortunately this suffers from > a race condition. Fixed a corner case where we failed to cleanup the > bit lock after a failed transmit, and resulted in a state bit being > locked forever. Added a new statistic which tracks when a transmit > timestamp request is skipped/ignored, since the driver can only handle > one transmit timestamp request at a time. > > Christophe Jaillet fixes a NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc fails. Pulled, thanks Jeff.
