netdev - Re: [RFC,v3 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet

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Message-ID: <1433947452.27504.9.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 07:44:12 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@...escale.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jianhua Xie <Jianhua.Xie@...escale.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC,v3 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 07:38 +0000, Madalin-Cristian Bucur wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Can you please tell us if this change would be for the better?
> 
> I was about to say yes to this request but checked and no other Ethernet driver seems to use the queue trans_start.
> I was able to find your patch "net: tx scalability works : trans_start" [ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/27104/ ] but did not find more about this topic.
>  

Drivers no longer have to worry about updating trans_start themselves.
Core networking stack handles this.

Check txq_trans_update() done from netdev_start_xmit()


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