Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Decouple flow control from __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-01-13 17:20:09
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:09:09 -0800
The __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() function is used to reclaim transmit
resources in different places within the driver. Most of them should
not affect the state of the transit flow control.
Introduce bcm_sysport_tx_clean() which cleans the ring, but does not
re-enable flow control towards the networking stack, and make
bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() do the actual transmit queue flow control.
Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>Applied and queued up for -stable.