Patch "net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done

to the 4.6-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:
     net-mvneta-set-real-interrupt-per-packet-for-tx_done.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 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 06708f81528725148473c0869d6af5f809c6824b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 04:18:58 +0200
Subject: net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done

From: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>

commit 06708f81528725148473c0869d6af5f809c6824b upstream.

Commit aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay") intended to
set coalescing threshold to a value guaranteeing interrupt generation
per each sent packet, so that buffers can be released with no delay.

In fact setting threshold to '1' was wrong, because it causes interrupt
every two packets. According to the documentation a reason behind it is
following - interrupt occurs once sent buffers counter reaches a value,
which is higher than one specified in MVNETA_TXQ_SIZE_REG(q). This
behavior was confirmed during tests. Also when testing the SoC working
as a NAS device, better performance was observed with int-per-packet,
as it strongly depends on the fact that all transmitted packets are
released immediately.

This commit enables NETA controller work in interrupt per sent packet mode
by setting coalescing threshold to 0.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Fixes aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay")
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
 /* Various constants */
 
 /* Coalescing */
-#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS		1
+#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS		0	/* interrupt per packet */
 #define MVNETA_RX_COAL_PKTS		32
 #define MVNETA_RX_COAL_USEC		100
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dima@marvell.com are

queue-4.6/net-mvneta-set-real-interrupt-per-packet-for-tx_done.patch