[Intel-wired-lan] [5/5] e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:41:02PM +0200, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> On 2017/09/19 12:38, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > We’ve been running this patchset (all 5) for about as long as they’ve been under review… about 2 months.  And in a burn-in lab with heavy traffic.
> > 
> > We’ve not seen a single link-flap in hundreds of ours of saturated traffic.
> > 
> > Would love to see some resolution soon on this as we don’t 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?

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Len Sorensen