From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: lpc_eth: Increase number of TX descriptors Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120611.011117.597888637750902318.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1339401793-12258-1-git-send-email-stigge@antcom.de> <1339401793-12258-2-git-send-email-stigge@antcom.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kevin.wells@nxp.com, srinivas.bakki@nxp.com, aletes.xgr@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: stigge@antcom.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1339401793-12258-2-git-send-email-stigge@antcom.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Roland Stigge Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:03:12 +0200 > Since we have enough SRAM, we can increase the number of TX descriptors, so the > "BUSY" warning about occupied TX descriptors doesn't need to show up as often. > > Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge > Tested-by: Alexandre Pereira da Silva This is way too terse, and as I described in my reply to your first patch it is not normal for the transmit function to be invoked when there are no TX descriptors available. That's a bug if it is happening.