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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:05:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: hkallweit1@...il.com Cc: nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux@...elenboom.it, edumazet@...gle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: make use of xmit_more From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 11:25:19 +0200 > There was a previous attempt to use xmit_more, but the change had to be > reverted because under load sometimes a transmit timeout occurred [0]. > Maybe this was caused by a missing memory barrier, the new attempt > keeps the memory barrier before the call to netif_stop_queue like it > is used by the driver as of today. The new attempt also changes the > order of some calls as suggested by Eric. > > [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/10/39 > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> Applied.
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