Re: [PATCH net] net: bnxt: ring the doorbell when SW USO exits early

[Joe Damato]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 03:36:42PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM Joe Damato <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
> > index f317f60414e8..3c58b1d94ac9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
> > @@ -223,9 +223,7 @@ netdev_tx_t bnxt_sw_udp_gso_xmit(struct bnxt *bp,
> >         netdev_tx_sent_queue(txq, skb->len);
> >
> >         WRITE_ONCE(txr->tx_prod, prod);
> > -       /* Sync BDs before doorbell */
> > -       wmb();
> > -       bnxt_db_write(bp, &txr->tx_db, prod);
> > +       bnxt_txr_db_kick(bp, txr, prod);
> 
> The patch looks good to me.  But a slightly simpler approach is to
> just set txr->kick_pending here.  Upon return, the new logic above
> will always ring the doorbell for the success case.  By doing this, we
> don't need to export bnxt_txr_db_kick().

Ah, right. Sorry I missed that; I was rushing too quickly to get this
out :)

I'll send a v2 tomorrow that simplfies the patch as you suggested. Thanks.