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On 30/05/2013 19:12, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The 82576 has known issues which require the write threshold to be set to 1.
> See:
> 	http://download.intel.com/design/network/specupdt/82576_SPECUPDATE.pdf
>
> If not then single packets will hang in transmit ring until more arrive.
> Simple tests like ping will fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger<shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Jardin <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>

It looks good. Thank you.