Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests
Date	2016-04-13 04:50 +0200
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From: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2016 00:54:03 +0200

> While testing the driver we managed to get the TX path to stall and fail
> to recover. When dual MAC support was added to the driver, the whole queue
> stop/wake code was not properly adapted. There was also a regression in the
> locking of the xmit function. The fact that watchdog_timeo was not set and
> that the tx_timeout code failed to properly reset the dma, irq and queue
> just made the mess complete.
> 
> This series make the driver pass stress testing. With this series applied
> the testbed has been running for several days and still has not locked up.
> We have a second setup that has a small hack patch applied to randomly stop
> irqs and/or one of the queues and successfully manages to recover from these
> simulated tx stalls.

Series applied, thanks.

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[PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> - 2016-04-08 10:00 +0200
  [PATCH V3 5/8] net: mediatek: fix TX locking John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> - 2016-04-08 10:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] net: mediatek: make the driver pass stress tests David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-04-13 04:50 +0200

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