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ixgb: fix bug in descriptor ring due to prefetch corruption
authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:51:17 +0000 (15:51 -0700)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:20:27 +0000 (01:20 -0400)
commit4360386f7d849f521e8ef042f90dbca73e07509c
tree874ef11dcb9ba00dd03013e0d3d30ae6bcc38c88
parente539e4667e3c8125641f5916eb0b7d087d3e0844
ixgb: fix bug in descriptor ring due to prefetch corruption

there was one more bug hidden in the prefetch routines in ixgb hardware
that force us to remove it completely.  Writebacks were being done on
descriptors with stale data due to internal hardware fifo corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c