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    amd-xgbe: Remove Tx coalescing · c635eaac
    Lendacky, Thomas authored
    The Tx coalescing support in the driver was a software implementation
    for something lacking in the hardware. Using hrtimers, the idea was to
    trigger a timer interrupt after having queued a packet for transmit.
    Unfortunately, as the timer value was lowered, the timer expired before
    the hardware actually did the transmit and so it was racey and resulted
    in unnecessary interrupts.
    
    Remove the Tx coalescing support and hrtimer and replace with a Tx timer
    that is used as a reclaim timer in case of inactivity.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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