This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    atl1c: dont use highprio tx queue

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     atl1c-dont-use-highprio-tx-queue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 18a32153146cbbc5549d5bebd5bb8a3386b6bbe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:43:11 +0000
Subject: atl1c: dont use highprio tx queue


From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 11aad99af6ef629ff3b05d1c9f0936589b204316 ]

This driver attempts to use two TX rings but lacks proper support :

1) IRQ handler only takes care of TX completion on first TX ring
2) the stop/start logic uses the legacy functions (for non multiqueue
drivers)

This means all packets witk skb mark set to 1 are sent through high
queue but are never cleaned and queue eventualy fills and block the
device, triggering the infamous "NETDEV WATCHDOG" message.

Lets use a single TX ring to fix the problem, this driver is not a real
multiqueue one yet.

Minimal fix for stable kernels.

Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Thomas Meyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Snook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
@@ -2223,10 +2223,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t atl1c_xmit_frame(stru
                        dev_info(&adapter->pdev->dev, "tx locked\n");
                return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED;
        }
-       if (skb->mark == 0x01)
-               type = atl1c_trans_high;
-       else
-               type = atl1c_trans_normal;
 
        if (atl1c_tpd_avail(adapter, type) < tpd_req) {
                /* no enough descriptor, just stop queue */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.0/atl1c-dont-use-highprio-tx-queue.patch
queue-3.0/neighbour-fixed-race-condition-at-tbl-nht.patch
queue-3.0/ipsec-be-careful-of-non-existing-mac-headers.patch
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