From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] network performance improvement patches for TI CPSW and Davinci EMAC drivers Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130327.141056.184216614500674595.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1364395320-14973-1-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: mugunthanvnm@ti.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:58922 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751279Ab3C0SK6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:10:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1364395320-14973-1-git-send-email-mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Mugunthan V N Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:11:58 +0530 > This patch series improves network performance of TI CPSW and Davinci EMAC > drivers during bulk transfer. During heavy Tx load CPDMA may run out of > descriptors and tx queue is stopped. When it descriptors are available it > is reported to the stack via netif_start_queue which doesn't schedule tx > queue immediately, so there can be dead time during continuous transfer, > this can be fixed by using netif_wake_queue api which will schedule tx queue > immediately. Both applied to 'net'.