AW: [RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-30 Thread Reither Robert
Hi François, tested your latest patchset with my 8110SC multicast problem (unreliable multicast receiving) Sad but true, but all still the same ... Greetings Robert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-21 Thread Bruce Cole
So I did some experimenting with locking, but eventually found that this chunk: @@ -2677,10 +2681,18 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_interrupt(struct net_device *dev, if (tp->dirty_tx != dirty_tx) { tp->dirty_tx = dirty_tx; - -smp_wmb(); - -if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &

[RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-21 Thread Bruce Cole
On 8/20/07, Dirk wrote: >> So it seems that when the driver tries to queue a packet while the >> controller is busy processing the queue, the newly queued packet does >> not get noticed by the controller (until further packet activity occurs). >> Perhaps there is a problem with the memory barrie

Re: [RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-20 Thread Chuck Lever
Francois Romieu wrote: The latest serie of r8169 changes is available against 2.6.23-rc3 as: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070818-2.6.23-rc3-r8169-test.patch or (tarball sits one level higher): http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.23-rc3/r8169-20070818/ or (rebas

Re: [RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-20 Thread Dirk
On 8/19/07, Bruce Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems that when the driver tries to queue a packet while the > controller is busy processing the queue, the newly queued packet does > not get noticed by the controller (until further packet activity occurs). > Perhaps there is a problem wit

Re: [RFT] r8169 changes against 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-18 Thread Bruce Cole
Francois Romieu wrote: The latest serie of r8169 changes is available against 2.6.23-rc3 as: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070818-2.6.23-rc3-r8169-test.patch or (tarball sits one level higher): http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.23-rc3/r8169-20070818/ or (rebas