Patch "8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     8139cp-reset-bql-when-ring-tx-ring-cleared.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From a6e170057815e3ed86d68ca9229facd30031f930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 06:54:43 +0000
Subject: 8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared

From: stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 98962baad72fd6d393bf39dbb7c2076532c363c6 ]

This patch cures transmit timeout's with DHCP observed
while running under KVM. When the transmit ring is cleaned out,
the Byte Queue Limit values need to be reset.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
@@ -1097,6 +1097,7 @@ static void cp_clean_rings (struct cp_pr
 			cp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		}
 	}
+	netdev_reset_queue(cp->dev);
 
 	memset(cp->rx_ring, 0, sizeof(struct cp_desc) * CP_RX_RING_SIZE);
 	memset(cp->tx_ring, 0, sizeof(struct cp_desc) * CP_TX_RING_SIZE);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/8139cp-reset-bql-when-ring-tx-ring-cleared.patch
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