[PATCH] e1000: Implement a workaround for 82546 errata 10
Implement 82546 errata 10 -- first Tx descriptor cannot have more than 2015 byte of data in it or it could hang the transmitter.
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
diff -up net-drivers-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c net-drivers-2.6/drivers/net/e1000.new/e1000_main.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 479915a..e54890a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1777,6 +1777,15 @@
if(unlikely(mss && !nr_frags && size == len && size > 8))
size -= 4;
#endif
+ /* work-around for errata 10 and it applies
+ * to all controllers in PCI-X mode
+ * The fix is to make sure that the first descriptor of a
+ * packet is smaller than 2048 - 16 - 16 (or 2016) bytes
+ */
+ if(unlikely((adapter->hw.bus_type == e1000_bus_type_pcix) &&
+ (size > 2015) && count == 0))
+ size = 2015;
+
/* Workaround for potential 82544 hang in PCI-X. Avoid
* terminating buffers within evenly-aligned dwords. */
if(unlikely(adapter->pcix_82544 &&
@@ -1979,6 +1988,13 @@
if(adapter->pcix_82544)
count++;
+ /* work-around for errata 10 and it applies to all controllers
+ * in PCI-X mode, so add one more descriptor to the count
+ */
+ if(unlikely((adapter->hw.bus_type == e1000_bus_type_pcix) &&
+ (len > 2015)))
+ count++;
+
nr_frags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
for(f = 0; f < nr_frags; f++)
count += TXD_USE_COUNT(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[f].size,