3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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 <dan.fra...@schneider-electric.com>
Suggested-by: Sriramakrishnan A G <s...@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthan...@ti.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ static void emac_tx_handler(void *token,
atomic_dec(&priv->cur_tx);
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);
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