Re: [PATCH] efinet: send_card_buffer: check for immediate TX completion

2015-02-04 Thread Wilck, Martin
I retried this test today with the latest released BIOS and firmware on the affected systems, and couldn't reproduce the problem any more. So, this patch doesn't seem to be necessary at this time. It was meant as a workaround for firmware malfunction anyway. Hopefully, at least, my analysis may b

[PATCH] efinet: send_card_buffer: check for immediate TX completion

2015-02-03 Thread Martin Wilck
We are seeing grub network errors ("couldn't send network packet") with UEFI PXE over an Emulex CNA. Debugging turned out that the TX code path was running in a timeout waiting for the "recycle buffer" to be returned. Time had an influence on this effect: the menu and all required modules loaded us