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    s390/qeth: stop/wake TX queues based on their fill level · 54a50941
    Julian Wiedmann authored
    Current xmit code only stops the txq after attempting to fill an
    IO buffer that hasn't been TX-completed yet. In many-connection
    scenarios, this can result in frequent rejected TX attempts, requeuing
    of skbs with NETDEV_TX_BUSY and extra overhead.
    
    Now that we have a proper 1-to-1 relation between stack-side txqs and
    our HW Queues, overhaul the stop/wake logic so that the xmit code
    stops the txq as needed.
    Given that we might map multiple skbs into a single buffer, it's crucial
    to ensure that the queue always provides an _entirely_ empty IO buffer.
    Otherwise large skbs (eg TSO) might not fit into the last available
    buffer. So whenever qeth_do_send_packet() first utilizes an _empty_
    buffer, it updates & checks the used_buffers count.
    
    This now ensures that an skb passed to qeth_xmit() can always be mapped
    into an IO buffer, so remove all of the -EBUSY roll-back handling in the
    TX path. We preserve the minimal safety-checks ("Is this IO buffer
    really available?"), just in case some nasty future bug ever attempts to
    corrupt an in-use buffer.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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