From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Decouple flow control from __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:20:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170113.122002.1603442400582097767.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170112200909.26825-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:09:09 -0800
> The __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() function is used to reclaim transmit
> resources in different places within the driver. Most of them should
> not affect the state of the transit flow control.
>
> Introduce bcm_sysport_tx_clean() which cleans the ring, but does not
> re-enable flow control towards the networking stack, and make
> bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() do the actual transmit queue flow control.
>
> Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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2017-01-12 20:09 [PATCH net] net: systemport: Decouple flow control from __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim Florian Fainelli
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