On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 01:26:21PM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> The SPAcc's have 2 equally sized FIFO's - a command FIFO and a status
> FIFO.  The command FIFO takes the requests that are to be performed and
> the status FIFO reports the results.  It is possible to get into the
> situation where there are more free spaces in the command FIFO than the
> status FIFO if we don't empty the status FIFO quickly enough resulting
> in a possible overflow of the status FIFO.  This can result in incorrect
> status being reported in the status FIFO.
> 
> Make sure that when we are submitting requests the number of requests
> that have been dispatched but not yet popped from the status FIFO does
> not exceed the size of a single FIFO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <ja...@jamieiles.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks!
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