Re: [E1000-devel] [STABLE REQUEST] igb: Remove artificial restriction on RQDPC stat reading

[Ben H. <be...@de...>]

On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 14:14 -0800, Vinson Lee wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to nominate commit
> ae1c07a6b7ced6c0c94c99e3b53f4e7856fa8bff for backport to stable
> branches earlier than 3.7.

Added to the queue for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

> commit ae1c07a6b7ced6c0c94c99e3b53f4e7856fa8bff
> Author: Alexander Duyck <ale...@in...>
> Date:   Wed Aug 8 05:23:22 2012 +0000
> 
>     igb: Remove artificial restriction on RQDPC stat reading
> 
>     For some reason the reading of the RQDPC register was being artificially
>     limited to 4K.  Instead of limiting the value we should read the value and
>     add the full amount.  Otherwise this can lead to a misleading number of
>     dropped packets when the actual value is in fact much higher.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <ale...@in...>
>     Tested-by: Jeff Pieper   <jef...@in...>
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jef...@in...>
> 
> Cheers,
> Vinson
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