>-----Original Message-----
>From: kel...@gmail.com [mailto:kel...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Kelvie Wong
>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:17 PM
>To: Dave, Tushar N
>Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Kelvie Wong
>Subject: Re: Intel 82574L hang when sending short ethernet packets at
>100BaseT
>
>On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dave, Tushar N <tushar.n.d...@intel.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>Anyway, here is the reproduction tool:
>>
>> I see, "Adding enough zero pad bytes to bring frame size up to 17 bytes
>causes the reset to no longer occur" - Is this true?
>>
>> -Tushar
>
>Yes, that is correct. We have been doing that ourselves as a workaround.

I'm already aware of this issue on PCI/PCI-X parts and e1000 SF driver does 
have this WA implemented. The patch for upstream e1000 driver is submitted too 
which will be accepted soon.
I will check with team and see if we need similar WA for PCIe part(s)!

-Tushar 
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