nve(4) timeout fix

[Marcus Frings]

* Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Also on the subject of nVidia NICs, I've fixed the device timeout
> problem on nve(4). It appears that some revisions of the hardware don't
> send interrupts on tx completion, which caused watchdog timeouts under
> low load. We should take this hardware quirk into account for the nfe
> port as well.

I also applied this patch to my FreeBSD 6.1RC (Asus A8N-E) for testing
and it works perfectly. By now I don't have any timeouts anymore!

Will it be added to the official release of 6.1 or CURRENT?

Regards,
Marcus
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