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[PATCH net-next 5/5] sunvnet: xoff not needed when removing port link

From: Shannon Nelson <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-07 02:02:10
Also in: lkml, sparclinux
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The sunvnet netdev is connected to the controlling ldom's vswitch
for network bridging.  However, for higher performance between ldoms,
there also is a channel between each client ldom.  These connections are
represented in the sunvnet driver by a queue for each ldom.  The driver
uses select_queue to tell the stack which queue to use by tracking the mac
addresses on the other end of each port.  When a connected ldom shuts down,
the driver receives an LDC_EVENT_RESET and the port is removed from the
driver, thus a queue with no ldom on the other end will never be selected
for Tx.

The driver was trying to reinforce the "don't use this queue" notion with
netif_tx_stop_queue() and netif_tx_wake_queue(), which really should only
be used to signal a Tx queue is full (aka XOFF).  This misuse of queue
state resulted in NETDEV WATCHDOG messages and lots of unnecessary calls
into the driver's tx_timeout handler.  Simply removing these takes care
of the problem.

Orabug: 25190537

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
index 7eb53af..1788d6f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
@@ -1749,16 +1749,12 @@ void sunvnet_port_add_txq_common(struct vnet_port *port)
 	vp->nports++;
 	vp->q_used[smallest]++;
 	port->q_index = smallest;
-	netif_tx_wake_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(VNET_PORT_TO_NET_DEVICE(port),
-						port->q_index));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sunvnet_port_add_txq_common);
 
 void sunvnet_port_rm_txq_common(struct vnet_port *port)
 {
 	port->vp->nports--;
-	netif_tx_stop_queue(netdev_get_tx_queue(VNET_PORT_TO_NET_DEVICE(port),
-						port->q_index));
 	port->vp->q_used[port->q_index]--;
 	port->q_index = 0;
 }
-- 
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