On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:33 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > This series contains updates to i40e, i40evf and igb to resolve > issues > seen and reported by Red Hat. > > Kiran moves i40e_get_head() in preparation for the refactor of the Tx > timeout logic, so that it can be used in other areas of the driver. > Refactored the driver timeout logic by issuing a writeback request > via > a software interrupt to the hardware the first time the driver > detects > a hang. This was due to the driver being too aggressive in resetting > a > hung queue. > > Shannon adds the GRE protocol to the transmit checksum encoding. > > Anjali fixes an issue of forcing writeback too often, which caused us > to > not benefit from NAPI. We now disable force writeback in the clean > routine for X710 and XL710 adapters. The X722 adapters do not enable > interrupt to force a writeback and benefit from WB_ON_ITR and so > force > WB is left enabled for those adapters. > > Stefan Assmann provides a fix for igb where SR-IOV was not getting > enabled properly and we ran into a NULL pointer if the max_vfs module > parameter is specified. This is prevented by setting the > IGB_FLAG_HAS_MSIX bit before calling igb_probe_vfs(). > > The following are changes since commit > 34c2d9fb0498c066afbe610b15e18995fd8be792: > bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled > and are available in the git repository at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue > master
I need to add one more patch to this series from Anjali which resolves a possible deadlock issue. So v2 of the series is coming shortly.
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