[ 56/68] drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-02T22:17:40Z

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.franke@schneider-electric.com>
Suggested-by: Sriramakrishnan A G <srk@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@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
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ 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);