netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: poll tx timeout only on active tx queues

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:47:19 +0300
From:	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Mohamad Haj Yahia <mohamad@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: poll tx timeout only on active tx queues

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 16:58 +0300, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>> -                     for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) {
>> +                     for (i = 0; i < dev->real_num_tx_queues; i++) {
>>                               struct netdev_queue *txq;
>>
>>                               txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i);
>
> Strange, why don't you change all others helpers that are using
> num_tx_queues ?
>

which other helpers ?
since this function assumes that all tx queues are started and if a
non real_txq is stopped for more that timeout period it will start
shouting call traces and warnings.

> Which driver had a problem with this code ?

non yet.
currently all the device driver call  netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev)
on open to W/A this issue. which is strange since only
real_num_tx_queues are active.