netdev - Re: [PATCH] netpoll: fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode

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Message-Id: <20070428.205900.35468970.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:59:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sshtylyov@...mvista.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:25:41 +0400

> On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:52, I wrote:
> 
> > > CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely
> > > bypassed in the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in
> > > the drivers with short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its
> > > 4-deep queue).  So, make this option more sensible by making it only
> > > bypass the TX softirq wakeup.
> >    Dammit!  Finally forgot to add acks earned so far:
> 
>    Oh, and there was even another one:
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
> 
> > Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>
> > Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

Applied, I'll push this to -stable too.
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