From: Auke Kok Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:51:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] ixgb: fix tx unit hang - properly calculate desciptor count X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc2~101^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=709cf0187d286cb1bf2c210e62bba98afdec859c;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] ixgb: fix tx unit hang - properly calculate desciptor count There were some tso bugs that only showed up with heavy load and 16kB pages that this patch fixes by making the driver's internal use count of descriptors match the count that it was estimating it needed using the DESC_NEEDED macro. This bug caused NETDEV_WATCHDOG resets aka tx timeouts. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c index 7eb08d9291..7bbd447289 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c @@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ ixgb_tx_map(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter, struct sk_buff *skb, while(len) { buffer_info = &tx_ring->buffer_info[i]; - size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE); + size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD); buffer_info->length = size; buffer_info->dma = pci_map_single(adapter->pdev, @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ ixgb_tx_map(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter, struct sk_buff *skb, while(len) { buffer_info = &tx_ring->buffer_info[i]; - size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE); + size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD); buffer_info->length = size; buffer_info->dma = pci_map_page(adapter->pdev,