netdev - Re: [RFC] Applicability of using 'txq_trans

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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:24:24 -0700
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Applicability of using 'txq_trans_update' during ring recovery

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:08 AM Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com> wrote:

> Can you please also comment on whether 'txq_trans_update' is considered
> an acceptable approach in this particular scenario?

In my opinion, updating trans_start to the current jiffies to prevent
TX timeout is not a good solution.  It just buys you the arbitrary TX
timeout period before the next TX timeout.  If you take more than this
time to restart the TX queue, you will still get TX timeout.

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