netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net 8/8] net: bcmgenet: decouple flow control from bcmgenet_tx

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Message-ID: <21e3ffb2-cf23-0c55-c5f7-dd711d8332e1@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:45:08 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
Cc:     pgynther@...gle.com, jaedon.shin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 8/8] net: bcmgenet: decouple flow control from
 bcmgenet_tx_reclaim

On 03/09/2017 04:58 PM, Doug Berger wrote:
> The bcmgenet_tx_reclaim() function is used to reclaim transmit
> resources in different places within the driver.  Most of them
> should not affect the state of the transmit flow control.
> 
> This commit relocates the logic for waking tx queues based on
> freed resources to the napi polling function where it is more
> appropriate.
> 
> Fixes: 1c1008c793fa ("net: bcmgenet: add main driver file")
> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian