[RFC,v3 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 00:44:12 AEST 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 07:38 +0000, Madalin-Cristian Bucur wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Can you please tell us if this change would be for the better?
> 
> I was about to say yes to this request but checked and no other Ethernet driver seems to use the queue trans_start.
> I was able to find your patch "net: tx scalability works : trans_start" [ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/27104/ ] but did not find more about this topic.
>  

Drivers no longer have to worry about updating trans_start themselves.
Core networking stack handles this.

Check txq_trans_update() done from netdev_start_xmit()




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