netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] tg3: Fix for disallow tx coalescing time to be 0

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Date:   Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:58:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ivecera@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, satish.baddipadige@...adcom.com,
        siva.kallam@...adcom.com, michael.chan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] tg3: Fix for disallow tx coalescing time to be 0

From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2016 11:28:59 +0200

> The recent commit 087d7a8c9174 "tg3: Fix for diasllow rx coalescing
> time to be 0" disallow to set Rx coalescing time to be 0 as this stops
> generating interrupts for the incoming packets. I found the zero
> Tx coalescing time stops generating interrupts for outgoing packets
> as well and fires Tx watchdog later. To avoid this, don't allow to set
> Tx coalescing time to 0 and also remove subsequent checks that become
> senseless.
> 
> Cc: satish.baddipadige@...adcom.com
> Cc: siva.kallam@...adcom.com
> Cc: michael.chan@...adcom.com
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>

Applied.