From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mugunthan V N Subject: [net-next PATCH 2/2] drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:12:00 +0530 Message-ID: <1364395320-14973-3-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> References: <1364395320-14973-1-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , , Mugunthan V N To: Return-path: Received: from comal.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.152]:37402 "EHLO comal.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752320Ab3C0OmN (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:42:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1364395320-14973-1-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 --- 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 8121a3d..6a0b477 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) * queue is stopped then start the queue as we have free desc for 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); -- 1.7.9.5