From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936210Ab3DHKFg (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:05:36 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:42922 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935816Ab3DHJwY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 05:52:24 -0400 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Mugunthan V N , "David S. Miller" , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 069/102] drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1365414657-29191-70-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.5.7.10 -stable 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: Luis Henriques --- 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 4da93a5..762464e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ static void emac_tx_handler(void *token, int len, int status) 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); -- 1.8.1.2