sfc: Stop TX queues before they fill up

We now have a definite upper bound on the number of descriptors per
skb; use that to stop the queue when the next packet might not fit.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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Ben Hutchings
2012-05-22 01:27:58 +01:00
parent 7668ff9c2a
commit 14bf718fb9
3 changed files with 112 additions and 115 deletions

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@@ -630,6 +630,16 @@ static void efx_start_datapath(struct efx_nic *efx)
efx->rx_buffer_order = get_order(efx->rx_buffer_len +
sizeof(struct efx_rx_page_state));
/* We must keep at least one descriptor in a TX ring empty.
* We could avoid this when the queue size does not exactly
* match the hardware ring size, but it's not that important.
* Therefore we stop the queue when one more skb might fill
* the ring completely. We wake it when half way back to
* empty.
*/
efx->txq_stop_thresh = efx->txq_entries - efx_tx_max_skb_descs(efx);
efx->txq_wake_thresh = efx->txq_stop_thresh / 2;
/* Initialise the channels */
efx_for_each_channel(channel, efx) {
efx_for_each_channel_tx_queue(tx_queue, channel)