netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/7] qlge: Fixed packet transmit errors due to potential driver errors.

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:38:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ron.mercer@...gic.com,
	Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/7] qlge: Fixed packet transmit errors due to
 potential driver errors.

From: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:30:47 -0700

> As per your comments, TX ring full is not expected behavior? All I
> can think of increasing the TX queue to 1024 and clean-up in timer
> instead of interrupt?

Your transmit function should never be invoked when the queue is
full, logic elsewhere in your driver should have stopped the queue
therefore preventing further invocations of your transmit function
until you wake the queue when space is liberated in the TX ring.
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