netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bcmgenet: add BQL support

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Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:23:20 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Petri Gynther <pgynther@...gle.com>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, opendmb@...il.com,
	Jaedon Shin <jaedon.shin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bcmgenet: add BQL support

On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 09:54 -0700, Petri Gynther wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2016-04-05 17:50 GMT-07:00 Petri Gynther <pgynther@...gle.com>:
> > > Add Byte Queue Limits (BQL) support to bcmgenet driver.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@...gle.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Florian
> 
> Any further comments?
> 
> Notable difference from some other drivers --
> netdev_tx_reset_queue(txq) is called for all queues in
> bcmgenet_netif_start(), just before netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev).
> This is to ensure that BQL is reset before the interface becomes
> operational.
> 
> I think that is the right place for these calls.
> 
> Some other drivers call it from the "interface down" path.

BQL is ready to go at device setup :

__QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF is not set

dql_reset() was called from dql_init(), called from
netdev_init_one_queue()