Unfortunately there's no timeout for how long a packet can sit on
the TX ring after completion before an interrupt is generated, and
we want to have a threshold that's larger than one packet per interrupt.
So we have to have a timer that occasionally cleans the TX ring even
though there hasn't been an interrupt. Instead of setting up a dedicated
timer for this, just clean it in the NAPI poll routine instead.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I know I got this rejected last time it was submitted, but no answers with
suggestions on how to handle it better. I'm all ears if there's a better
way. (I noticed that Intel's new ixgbe driver does the same thing).
Index: mainline/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
===================================================================
--- mainline.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
+++ mainline/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
@@ -1086,6 +1086,7 @@ static int pasemi_mac_poll(struct net_de
int pkts, limit = min(*budget, dev->quota);
struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(dev);
+ pasemi_mac_clean_tx(mac);
pkts = pasemi_mac_clean_rx(mac, limit);
dev->quota -= pkts;
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