From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Fix usage of netif_*_all_queues() with netif_carrier_{off|on}() Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:55:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090119.165530.190679813.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090120001101.22544.15858.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> <20090120001147.22544.97470.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43275 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757928AbZATAz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:55:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090120001147.22544.97470.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:11:47 -0800 > netif_carrier_off() is sufficient to stop Tx into the driver. Stopping the Tx > queues is redundant and unnecessary. By the same token, netif_carrier_on() > will be sufficient to re-enable Tx, so waking the queues is unnecessary. > > Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.