From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:34:25 -0700
> [TG3]: Improve ASF heartbeat. > > Change to a different ASF heartbeat message code to improve > reliability. > > There were some reports of unintended resets on real time kernels > where the timer may be slow and cause the heartbeat to be late. > Netpoll will also have the same problem because the timer irq will > be unavailable. > > Using the new heartbeat code, the ASF firmware will also check the > ring condition before resetting the chip when the heartbeat is > expiring. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
