r8169: reduce number of workaround doorbell rings
Some chip versions have a hw bug resulting in lost door bell rings. To work around this the doorbell is also rung whenever we still have tx descriptors in flight after having cleaned up tx descriptors. These PCI(e) writes come at a cost, therefore let's reduce the number of extra doorbell rings. If skb is NULL then this means: - last cleaned-up descriptor belongs to a skb with at least one fragment and last fragment isn't marked as sent yet - hw is in progress sending the skb, therefore no extra doorbell ring is needed for this skb - once last fragment is marked as transmitted hw will trigger a tx done interrupt and we come here again (with skb != NULL) and ring the doorbell if needed Therefore skip the workaround doorbell ring if skb is NULL. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a15a83c-aecf-ab51-8071-b29d9dcd529a@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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