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authorYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>2016-03-13 21:21:48 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-03-16 19:23:35 -0400
commitd78a1f08458f8118cf42154e55a3006cc17502bc (patch)
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bnx2x: don't wait for Tx completion on recovery
When driver has hit a parity event, HW can no longer write to host memory. As a result, Tx completions cannot be written to the host SB memory, and waiting for Tx completions eventually timeout. As driver is willing to delay as much as 1-2 seconds per Tx queue for its draining and this delay is sequential, the time to recover might greatly lengthen needlessly in case the recovery is done under multi-connection traffic. Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index a949783c8fc3..0a9108cd4c45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -3042,8 +3042,12 @@ int bnx2x_nic_unload(struct bnx2x *bp, int unload_mode, bool keep_link)
bnx2x_save_statistics(bp);
}
- /* wait till consumers catch up with producers in all queues */
- bnx2x_drain_tx_queues(bp);
+ /* wait till consumers catch up with producers in all queues.
+ * If we're recovering, FW can't write to host so no reason
+ * to wait for the queues to complete all Tx.
+ */
+ if (unload_mode != UNLOAD_RECOVERY)
+ bnx2x_drain_tx_queues(bp);
/* if VF indicate to PF this function is going down (PF will delete sp
* elements and clear initializations