From: Alexander Duyck Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 07:49:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ixgbe: Do no clear Tx status bits since eop_desc provides enough info X-Git-Tag: v3.4-rc1~177^2~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f83a9e6292b49d1540f82f295ac8710ba562c5f;p=pandora-kernel.git ixgbe: Do no clear Tx status bits since eop_desc provides enough info There isn't any need to clear the status bits in the descriptors due to the fact that the eop_desc provides enough information for us to know that we have cleaned to the last packet that the software has put on the ring. The status bits are cleared as a part of putting the frame on the ring so as long as we do not read the descriptor bit prior to reading the value eop_desc we should be able to guarantee that we will not clean beyond the end of the current data stream. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Tested-by: Stephen Ko Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- Reading git-diff-tree failed