netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] r8169: use new macro netif_subqueue_maybe_stop in rtl8169_start

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Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:33:11 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] r8169: use new macro
 netif_subqueue_maybe_stop in rtl8169_start_xmit

On 16.04.2023 12:20, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 09:22:11AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> Use new net core macro netif_subqueue_maybe_stop in the start_xmit path
>> to simplify the code. Whilst at it, set the tx queue start threshold to
>> twice the stop threshold. Before values were the same, resulting in
>> stopping/starting the queue more often than needed.
>>
>> v2:
>> - ring doorbell if queue was stopped
> 
> Please put changelog under "---" markup, below tags section.
> 
I know that this would be the standard. IIRC Dave once requested to
make the change log part of the commit message.

> Thanks
>