Re: [PATCH net v2 3/4] r8152: re-schedule napi for tx

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Jan 25 2017 - 08:57:25 EST


On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 16:13 +0800, Hayes Wang wrote:
> Re-schedule napi after napi_complete() for tx, if it is necessay.
>
> In r8152_poll(), if the tx is completed after tx_bottom() and before
> napi_complete(), the scheduling of napi would be lost. Then, no
> one handles the next tx until the next napi_schedule() is called.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> index ec882be..45d168e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> @@ -1936,6 +1936,9 @@ static int r8152_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
> napi_complete(napi);
> if (!list_empty(&tp->rx_done))
> napi_schedule(napi);
> + else if (!skb_queue_empty(&tp->tx_queue) &&
> + !list_empty(&tp->tx_free))
> + napi_schedule(&tp->napi);

Why using &tp->napi instead of napi here, as done 3 lines above ?