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

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 


Let’s hope!

-Philip