netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sfc: push partner queue for skb->xmit

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Date:	Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:03:52 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mhabets@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: push partner queue for skb->xmit_more

From: Martin Habets <mhabets@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:51:31 +0000

> When the IP stack passes SKBs the sfc driver puts them in 2 different TX
> queues (called partners), one for checksummed and one for not checksummed.
> If the SKB has xmit_more set the driver will delay pushing the work to the
> NIC.
> 
> When later it does decide to push the buffers this patch ensures it also
> pushes the partner queue, if that also has any delayed work. Before this
> fix the work in the partner queue would be left for a long time and cause
> a netdev watchdog.
> 
> Fixes: 70b33fb ("sfc: add support for skb->xmit_more")
> 
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Habets <mhabets@...arflare.com>

Please do not separate the Fixes: tag from the other tags with an
empty line.  They should all solidly be together in an uninterrupted
block of text.

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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