[RFC PATCH v11 08/12] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix RX data corruption issue

Vladimir Oltean olteanv at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 15:31:21 PST 2023


On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:55:05PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Also set bit 12 which disabled the RX FIDO clear function when setting up
> MAC MCR, as MediaTek SDK did the same change stating:
> "If without this patch, kernel might receive invalid packets that are
> corrupted by GMAC."[1]
> This fixes issues with <= 1G speed where we could previously observe
> about 30% packet loss while the bad packet counter was increasing.
> 
> [1]: https://git01.mediatek.com/plugins/gitiles/openwrt/feeds/mtk-openwrt-feeds/+/d8a2975939a12686c4a95c40db21efdc3f821f63
> Tested-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
> ---

Should this patch be submitted separately from the series, to the
net.git tree, to be backported to stable kernels?



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