[PATCH net-next 0/4] net: make dev_watchdog() less intrusive

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

dev_watchdog() is used on many NIC to periodically monitor TX queues
to detect hangs.

Problem is : It stops all queues, then check them, then 'unfreeze' them.

Not only this stops feeding the NIC, it also migrates all qdiscs
to be serviced on the cpu calling netif_tx_unlock(), causing
a potential latency artifact.

With many TX queues, this is becoming more visible.

Eric Dumazet (4):
  net: use an atomic_long_t for queue->trans_timeout
  net: annotate accesses to queue->trans_start
  net: do not inline netif_tx_lock()/netif_tx_unlock()
  net: no longer stop all TX queues in dev_watchdog()

 .../net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c         |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c    |  4 +-
 .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c     |  4 +-
 .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/reporter_tx.c       |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |  6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c                      |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/init.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c     |  2 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                     | 57 +++++----------
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                          |  6 +-
 net/sched/sch_generic.c                       | 69 ++++++++++++++++---
 15 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

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