On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 23:06 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 02.10.2012 22:49, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > "Michael Chan" <mc...@broadcom.com> writes: > >> These are the likely fixes: > >> > >> commit cf9ecf4b631f649a964fa611f1a5e8874f2a76db > >> Author: Matt Carlson <mcarl...@broadcom.com> > >> Date: Mon Nov 28 09:41:03 2011 +0000 > >> > >> tg3: Fix TSO CAP for 5704 devs w / ASF enabled > > > > You are exactly right: cf9ecf4b fixed the premanent SoL breakage > > introduced by dabc5c67. Looks like ASF utilizes similar technology to > > that of the HS20 BMC. Thanks for the tip, it greatly reduced our CPU > > wear. :) It's a pity ethtool -k did not give a hint. Do you think it's > > possible to work around in 3.2 by eg. fiddling some ethtool setting? > > Maybe it's better to push this commit to -stable instead?
But that will take time, so I imagine a temporary workaround would be useful to Ferenc. > (the commit > that broke things is part of 3.0 kernel so all current 3.x -stable > kernels are affected) [...] The fix went into 3.3, so only 3.0 and 3.2 need it. David, please can you include the above commit in your next batches for these stable series? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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