netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmvnic: Keep track of supplementary TX descriptors

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Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:20:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmvnic: Keep track of supplementary TX
 descriptors

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:08:41 -0600

> Supplementary TX descriptors were not being accounted for, which
> was resulting in an overflow of the hardware device's transmit
> queue. Keep track of those descriptors now when determining
> how many entries remain on the TX queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks Thomas.