Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9][TG3]: Improve ASF heartbeat.

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:08:47 -0700

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 16:01 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> But what exactly is meant by "checking the ring condition"?
> 
> Does it mean that if the ASF heartbeat times out, ASF will
> check to see if the TX and/or RX ring are still making forward
> progress and abort the reset if so?
> 

Exactly.  If the rx ring is not empty, it will check to see if the
consumer index of the rx ring is making forward progress.