Clean the TX ring in the poll call, to avoid sitting on mapped buffers for a long time. NFS doesn't seem to like it much, for example. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c =================================================================== --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c @@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ static int pasemi_mac_poll(struct net_de int pkts, limit = min(*budget, dev->quota); struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(dev); + pasemi_mac_clean_tx(mac); pkts = pasemi_mac_clean_rx(mac, limit); dev->quota -= pkts; --