Re: [5/5] e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts

From: Philip Prindeville
Date: Tue Oct 24 2017 - 13:39:25 EST



> On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:41:02PM +0200, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>> On 2017/09/19 12:38, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Weâve been running this patchset (all 5) for about as long as theyâve been under reviewâ about 2 months. And in a burn-in lab with heavy traffic.
>>>
>>> Weâve not seen a single link-flap in hundreds of ours of saturated traffic.
>>>
>>> Would love to see some resolution soon on this as we donât want to ship a release with unsanctioned patches.
>>>
>>> Is there an estimate on when that might be?
>>
>> The patches have been added to Jeff Kirsher's next-queue tree. I guess
>> they will be submitted for v4.15 which might be released in early
>> 2018...
>> http://phb-crystal-ball.org/
>
> And then they will be submitted to linux-stable so this long standing
> regression can be fixed, right?
>


Letâs hope!

-Philip