From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:49 -0700
> On 05/10/2012 12:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> David Miller wrote: >>> From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> >>>> All of the changes in igb are unnecessary. I think they can be dropped >>>> from the patch as they have already been reverted from the latest >>>> net-next. The only change that is really needed is the piece in >>>> netdevice.h below. >>> Does it hurt? If not, just let it be. >> Based on the commit description for dad8a3b3eaa0 ("igb, ixgbe: >> netdev_tx_reset_queue incorrectly called from tx init path"), yes, it >> hurts. I don't know if it hurts enough to justify holding up this >> patch until dad8a3b3eaa0 hits mainline. >> >> | this sort of works in most cases except >> | when the number of real tx queues changes. When the number of real >> | tx queues changes netdev_tx_reset_queue() only gets called on the >> | new number of queues so when we reduce the number of queues we risk >> | triggering the watchdog timer and repeated device resets. >> | >> | So this is not only a cosmetic issue but causes real bugs. For >> | example enabling/disabling DCB or FCoE in ixgbe will trigger this. > I'm fairly certain we really shouldn't make the changes to igb. I would > say to just modify the existing patch by just dropping the igb portion > of it and it would be fine. Ok, Greg, could you do me a huge favor and simply trim the IGB driver changes from this patch and just keep the linux/netdevice.h part? -- 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
