linux/debian/patches/bugfix/all/sfc-Disable-TX-descriptor-p...

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From 286d47ba90315a871f77351f7f61b7e4a96476a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:49:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] sfc: Disable TX descriptor prefetch watchdog
This hardware watchdog can misfire, so it does more harm than good.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/sfc/nic.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/nic.c b/drivers/net/sfc/nic.c
index a577be2..db44224 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/nic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/nic.c
@@ -1576,6 +1576,8 @@ void efx_nic_init_common(struct efx_nic *efx)
EFX_SET_OWORD_FIELD(temp, FRF_AZ_TX_SOFT_EVT_EN, 1);
/* Prefetch threshold 2 => fetch when descriptor cache half empty */
EFX_SET_OWORD_FIELD(temp, FRF_AZ_TX_PREF_THRESHOLD, 2);
+ /* Disable hardware watchdog which can misfire */
+ EFX_SET_OWORD_FIELD(temp, FRF_AZ_TX_PREF_WD_TMR, 0x3fffff);
/* Squash TX of packets of 16 bytes or less */
if (efx_nic_rev(efx) >= EFX_REV_FALCON_B0)
EFX_SET_OWORD_FIELD(temp, FRF_BZ_TX_FLUSH_MIN_LEN_EN, 1);
--
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