netdev - Re: [PATCH -next 3/4] net: w5100: increase TX timeout period

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2016 19:50:39 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Sinkovsky <msink@...monline.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 3/4] net: w5100: increase TX timeout period

2016-05-12 8:49 GMT+09:00 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:30:26 +0900
>
>> This increases TX timeout period from one second to 5 seconds which is
>> default value defined in net/sched/sch_generic.c.
>>
>> The one second timeout is too short for W5100 with SPI interface mode
>> which doesn't support burst READ/WRITE processing in the SPI transfer.
>> If the packet is transmitted while RX packets are being received at a
>> very high rate, the TX transmittion work in the workqueue is delayed
>> and the watchdog timer is expired.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
>
> It would be just cleaner to just remove the assignment completely, and
> let said net/sched/sch_generic.c code set the default for you.

Sounds good.  I'll resubmit the series with that change.