netdev - [PATCH] pktgen: Fix delay handling

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Message-ID: <4AC47AB6.9000501@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:47:34 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@...x.dk>,
	Robert Olsson <robert@...julf.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] pktgen: Fix delay handling

After last pktgen changes, delay handling is wrong.

pktgen actually sends packets at full line speed.

Fix is to update pkt_dev->next_tx even if spin() returns early,
so that next spin() calls have a chance to see a positive delay.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 0bcecbf..1a0682e 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -2106,15 +2106,17 @@ static void pktgen_setup_inject(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev)
 static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until)
 {
 	ktime_t start;
-	s32 remaining;
+	s64 remaining;
 	struct hrtimer_sleeper t;
 
 	hrtimer_init_on_stack(&t.timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
 	hrtimer_set_expires(&t.timer, spin_until);
 
 	remaining = ktime_to_us(hrtimer_expires_remaining(&t.timer));
-	if (remaining <= 0)
+	if (remaining <= 0) {
+		pkt_dev->next_tx = ktime_add_ns(spin_until, pkt_dev->delay);
 		return;
+	}
 
 	start = ktime_now();
 	if (remaining < 100)
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