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Bug 628831

Summary:	Enable NAPI for forcedeth driver
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Liang Zheng <lzheng>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.5	CC:	hjia, jeff.burrell, kzhang, lzheng, qcai
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Description Ivan Vecera 2010-08-31 07:07:54 UTC

Description of problem:
Unlike RHEL4 and RHEL6 forcedeth network driver in RHEL5 does not use NAPI interface. Though forcedeth's code is NAPI aware there is missing CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI option in kernel configuration.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All kernel versions in RHEL 5.5

How reproducible:
N/A

Actual results:
The forcedeth driver contains both NAPI and non-NAPI code with appropriate ifdefs, but currently is using non-NAPI paths. 

Expected results:
The driver should use NAPI code as well as RHEL4 and RHEL6.

Additional info:
Non-NAPI code was considered as obsolete and removed from upstream.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-31 07:19:03 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 4 Ivan Vecera 2010-09-14 07:10:23 UTC

*** Bug 572368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jarod Wilson 2010-09-15 14:01:43 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-221.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5

Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed.

Comment 10 Neil Horman 2010-12-16 13:45:41 UTC

*** Bug 533281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 21:14:15 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html