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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: do not stop tx queues in ixgbe_set_tso
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:14:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226091456.19796.53149.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100226091318.19796.70225.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>

Disabling TSO can cause the dev_watchdog timer to be triggered because
when TSO is disabled netif_tx_stop_all_queues is called.  If the watchdog
timer fires while the queues are stopped and traffic has not recently been
sent on a paticular queue this is falsly identified as a hang and
ndo_tx_timeout() is called.  This is ocossionally seen during testing.

This removes the netif_tx_stop_all_queues() it is not needed.  The scheduler
submits skb's with dev_hard_start_xmit(), this checks if netif_needs_gso and
if so it calls dev_gso_segment.  Disabling TSO will cause dev_hard_start_xmit()
to do the gso processing.   However ixgbe does not use the features flags to
determine if it needs to use tso or not instead it uses skb->gso_size so
ixgbe will process these frames correctly regardless of the netdev features
flag.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---

 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
index 0d23434..7949a44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
@@ -441,10 +441,8 @@ static int ixgbe_set_tso(struct net_device *netdev, u32 data)
 		netdev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO;
 		netdev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO6;
 	} else {
-		netif_tx_stop_all_queues(netdev);
 		netdev->features &= ~NETIF_F_TSO;
 		netdev->features &= ~NETIF_F_TSO6;
-		netif_tx_start_all_queues(netdev);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  9:14 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Fix DMA mapping/unmapping issues when HWRSC is enabled on IOMMU enabled kernels Jeff Kirsher
2010-02-26  9:14 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2010-02-26 10:10   ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: do not stop tx queues in ixgbe_set_tso David Miller
2010-02-26  9:15 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Do not allocate too many netdev txqueues Jeff Kirsher
2010-02-26 10:10   ` David Miller
2010-02-26 14:04   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-28  1:02     ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-02-28  3:57       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-01  7:21         ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-03-01  7:53           ` John Fastabend
2010-02-26 10:10 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Fix DMA mapping/unmapping issues when HWRSC is enabled on IOMMU enabled kernels David Miller
2010-03-02  0:29 ` Simon Horman
2010-03-02  1:09   ` Chilakala, Mallikarjuna

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