[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next 23/25] fm10k: reset head instead of calling update_max_size

[Singh, Krishneil K]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsher, Jeffrey T 
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 2:07 PM
To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
Cc: Keller, Jacob E; Singh, Krishneil K
Subject: Re: [net-next 23/25] fm10k: reset head instead of calling update_max_size

On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 13:27 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> When we forcefully shutdown the mailbox, we then go about resetting 
> max size to 0, and clearing all messages in the FIFO. Instead, we 
> should just reset the head pointer so that the FIFO becomes empty, 
> rather than changing the max size to 0. This helps prevent increment 
> in tx_dropped counter during mailbox negotiation, which is confusing 
> to viewers of Linux ethtool statistics output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Matthew Vick <matthew.vick at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I have applied to my queue.
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Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh at intel.com>