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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 11:32:26 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 13:05:20 +1000 |
| commit | 2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e (patch) | |
| tree | 6186a6458c3c160385d794a23eaf07c786a9e61b /drivers/net/virtio_net.c | |
| parent | cec32a47010647e8b0603726ebb75b990a4057a4 (diff) | |
| parent | 09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff) | |
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Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards,
due to API changes in the regulator tree.
I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/virtio_net.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 59b0e9754ae3..63c7810e1545 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -749,9 +749,9 @@ static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) { struct receive_queue *rq = container_of(napi, struct receive_queue, napi); - unsigned int r, received = 0; + unsigned int r, received; - received += virtnet_receive(rq, budget - received); + received = virtnet_receive(rq, budget); /* Out of packets? */ if (received < budget) { @@ -939,8 +939,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) skb_orphan(skb); nf_reset(skb); - /* Apparently nice girls don't return TX_BUSY; stop the queue - * before it gets out of hand. Naturally, this wastes entries. */ + /* If running out of space, stop queue to avoid getting packets that we + * are then unable to transmit. + * An alternative would be to force queuing layer to requeue the skb by + * returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY. However, NETDEV_TX_BUSY should not be + * returned in a normal path of operation: it means that driver is not + * maintaining the TX queue stop/start state properly, and causes + * the stack to do a non-trivial amount of useless work. + * Since most packets only take 1 or 2 ring slots, stopping the queue + * early means 16 slots are typically wasted. + */ if (sq->vq->num_free < 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) { netif_stop_subqueue(dev, qnum); if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq))) { |