[PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] sunvnet: xoff not needed when removing port link

From: Shannon Nelson
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 13:30:24 EST


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 <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 0c35a9a..7febfb6 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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