On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:59:09PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Commit eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 upstream. > > The 8168evl (RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34) based Gigabyte GA-990FXA motherboards > are very prone to NETDEV watchdog problems without this change. See > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42899 for instance. > > I don't know why it *works*. It's depressingly effective though. > > For the record: > - the problem may go along IOMMU (AMD-Vi) errors but it really looks > like a red herring. > - the patch sets the RX_MULTI_EN bit. If the 8168c doc is any guide, > the chipset now fetches several Rx descriptors at a time. > - long ago the driver ignored the RX_MULTI_EN bit. > e542a2269f232d61270ceddd42b73a4348dee2bb changed the RxConfig > settings. Whatever the problem it's now labeled a regression. > - Realtek's own driver can identify two different 8168evl devices > (CFG_METHOD_16 and CFG_METHOD_17) where the r8169 driver only > sees one. It sucks. > > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> > --- > > The patch is diffed against v3.4.7. It applies with minor offset > to v3.3.8 and v3.2.24.
Applied to 3.4, thanks. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
