netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] igc: Avoid transmit queue timeout for XDP

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Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:03:44 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        "Ong Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
        <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] igc: Avoid transmit queue timeout for XDP

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:30:38 -0700 Jacob Keller wrote:
> Is most driver's XDP implementation broken? There's also
> netif_trans_update but this is called out as a legacy only function. Far
> more drivers call this but I don't see either call or a direct update to
> trans_start in many XDP implementations...
> 
> Am I missing something or are a bunch of other XDP implementations also
> wrong?

Only drivers which use the same Tx queues for the stack and XDP need
this.