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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:28:48 +0000
From: Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: stmmac: make
stmmac-tx-timeout configurable in Kconfig
Hi Heiner,
On Dec 02, 2021 at 16:13:20, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > stmmac_tx_timeout() function is called when a queue transmission
> > timeout. When Strict Priority is used as scheduling algorithms, the
> > lower priority queue may be blocked by a higher prority queue, which
> > will lead to tx timeout. We don't want to enable the tx watchdog
> > timeout in this case. Therefore, this patch make stmmac-tx-timeout
> configurable.
> >
> Your patch just disables the timeout handler, the WARN_ONCE() would still fire.
> And shouldn't this be a runtime setting rather than a compile-time setting?
>
I tried to disable it in stmmac_tx_timeout() at runtime, the WARN_ONCE() will still be called from dev_watchdog() in sch_generic.c. It seems only when the timeout handler is NULL can disable the netdev watchdog up. So I did this in compile-time setting.
Regards,
Xiaoliang
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