[PATCH 11/50] 8139cp: reset BQL when ring tx ring cleared

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jul 2 11:06:59 UTC 2013


3.5.7.16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: stephen hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

commit 98962baad72fd6d393bf39dbb7c2076532c363c6 upstream.

This patch cures transmit timeout's with DHCP observed
while running under KVM. When the transmit ring is cleaned out,
the Byte Queue Limit values need to be reset.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
index e0490ad..d9ef667 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c
@@ -1116,6 +1116,7 @@ static void cp_clean_rings (struct cp_private *cp)
 			cp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		}
 	}
+	netdev_reset_queue(cp->dev);
 
 	memset(cp->rx_ring, 0, sizeof(struct cp_desc) * CP_RX_RING_SIZE);
 	memset(cp->tx_ring, 0, sizeof(struct cp_desc) * CP_TX_RING_SIZE);
-- 
1.8.1.2





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