Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: add BQL support

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 19:07 +0100, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> Add support for Byte Queue Limits to the STMicro MAC driver.
> 
> Tested on a Amlogic S802 quad Cortex-A9 board, where the use of BQL
> decreases the latency of a high priority ping from ~12ms to ~1ms when
> the 100Mbit link is saturated by 20 TCP streams.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>  - don't access skb->len after the start of DMA transmission in
>    stmmac_xmit(), to avoid potential use after free in case tx_lock is
>    removed in the future
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !


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