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bnx2: Fix lost MSI-X problem on 5709 NICs.
authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:28:09 +0000 (11:28 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 12 May 2010 22:02:55 +0000 (15:02 -0700)
commit2afddab2958e63289a538985bfd8b584502de37b
tree7166af07b0af8f64d52869be8deb45d40b249ca5
parent2a2f4e85df27a534760e704d0c84c178928fee1f
bnx2: Fix lost MSI-X problem on 5709 NICs.

commit c441b8d2cb2194b05550a558d6d95d8944e56a84 upstream.

It has been reported that under certain heavy traffic conditions in MSI-X
mode, the driver can lose an MSI-X vector causing all packets in the
associated rx/tx ring pair to be dropped.  The problem is caused by
the chip dropping the write to unmask the MSI-X vector by the kernel
(when migrating the IRQ for example).

This can be prevented by increasing the GRC timeout value for these
register read and write operations.

Thanks to Dell for helping us debug this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/bnx2.c