From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934778Ab3DGXaE (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:30:04 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:46723 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934627Ab3DGXaA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:30:00 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Dan Franke" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Sriramakrishnan A G" , "Mugunthan V N" , "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:45:43 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [62/74] drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:b4b3:7e2a:e2d0:3478 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.43-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mugunthan V N commit 7e51cde276ca820d526c6c21cf8147df595a36bf upstream. To restart tx queue use netif_wake_queue() intead of netif_start_queue() so that net schedule will restart transmission immediately which will increase network performance while doing huge data transfers. Reported-by: Dan Franke Suggested-by: Sriramakrishnan A G Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c index 22f2788..fd8115e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static void emac_tx_handler(void *token, int len, int status) struct net_device *ndev = skb->dev; if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(ndev))) - netif_start_queue(ndev); + netif_wake_queue(ndev); ndev->stats.tx_packets++; ndev->stats.tx_bytes += len; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);