This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netxen: fix netxen_nic_poll() logic
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: netxen-fix-netxen_nic_poll-logic.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Feb 12 09:26:20 HKT 2015 From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:56:18 -0800 Subject: netxen: fix netxen_nic_poll() logic From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> [ Upstream commit 6088beef3f7517717bd21d90b379714dd0837079 ] NAPI poll logic now enforces that a poller returns exactly the budget when it wants to be called again. If a driver limits TX completion, it has to return budget as well when the limit is hit, not the number of received packets. Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikb...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Fixes: d75b1ade567f ("net: less interrupt masking in NAPI") Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.cho...@qlogic.com> Acked-by: Manish Chopra <manish.cho...@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c @@ -2315,7 +2315,10 @@ static int netxen_nic_poll(struct napi_s work_done = netxen_process_rcv_ring(sds_ring, budget); - if ((work_done < budget) && tx_complete) { + if (!tx_complete) + work_done = budget; + + if (work_done < budget) { napi_complete(&sds_ring->napi); if (test_bit(__NX_DEV_UP, &adapter->state)) netxen_nic_enable_int(sds_ring); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eduma...@google.com are queue-3.10/tcp-ipv4-initialize-unicast_sock-sk_pacing_rate.patch queue-3.10/ip-zero-sockaddr-returned-on-error-queue.patch queue-3.10/ping-fix-race-in-free-in-receive-path.patch queue-3.10/net-rps-fix-cpu-unplug.patch queue-3.10/netxen-fix-netxen_nic_poll-logic.patch queue-3.10/ipv4-tcp-get-rid-of-ugly-unicast_sock.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html