netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 1/1] net: forcedeth: add xmit

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:32:44 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
Cc:     rain.1986.08.12@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/1] net: forcedeth: add xmit_more support

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:30:12 -0400, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
> This change adds support for xmit_more based on the igb commit 6f19e12f6230
> ("igb: flush when in xmit_more mode and under descriptor pressure") and
> commit 6b16f9ee89b8 ("net: move skb->xmit_more hint to softnet data") that
> were made to igb to support this feature. The function netif_xmit_stopped
> is called to check whether transmit queue on device is currently unable to
> send to determine whether we must write the tail because we can add no further
> buffers.
> When normal packets and/or xmit_more packets fill up tx_desc, it is
> necessary to trigger NIC tx reg.
> 

> CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>
> CC: JUNXIAO_BI <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Nan san <nan.1986san@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Rain River <rain.1986.08.12@...il.com>

I explained to you nicely that you have to kick on the DMA error cases.

Please stop wasting everyone's time by reposting this.