From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: "terry.loftin@hp•com" <terry.loftin@hp•com>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net"
<e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net>,
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] e1000e: stop cleaning when we reach tx_ring->next_to_use
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:13:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270181598.14388.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401.193355.255461107.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 19:33 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@hp•com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:01:52 -0600
>
> > Tx ring buffers after tx_ring->next_to_use are volatile and could
> > change, possibly causing a crash. Stop cleaning when we hit
> > tx_ring->next_to_use.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@hp•com>
>
> Intel folks please look carefully at this fix. I want to
> get it into net-2.6 if it's correct.
>
> Thanks.
Got this one as well...
--
Cheers,
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-02 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 20:01 [PATCH 1/1] e1000e: stop cleaning when we reach tx_ring->next_to_use Terry Loftin
2010-04-02 2:33 ` David Miller
2010-04-02 4:13 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
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