[PATCH] dpaa_eth: use AVOIDBLOCK for Tx confirmation queues

Madalin Bucur madalin.bucur at nxp.com
Fri Mar 31 00:24:15 AEDT 2017


The AVOIDBLOCK flag determines the Tx confirmation queues processing
to be redirected to any available CPU when the current one is slow
in processing them. This may result in a higher Tx confirmation
interrupt count but may reduce pressure on a certain CPU that with
the previous setting would process all Tx confirmation frames.

Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
index d4bb8bf..9a520e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ static int dpaa_fq_init(struct dpaa_fq *dpaa_fq, bool td_enable)
 		 * Tx Confirmation FQs.
 		 */
 		if (dpaa_fq->fq_type == FQ_TYPE_TX_CONFIRM)
-			initfq.fqd.fq_ctrl |= cpu_to_be16(QM_FQCTRL_HOLDACTIVE);
+			initfq.fqd.fq_ctrl |= cpu_to_be16(QM_FQCTRL_AVOIDBLOCK);
 
 		/* FQ placement */
 		initfq.we_mask |= cpu_to_be16(QM_INITFQ_WE_DESTWQ);
-- 
2.1.0



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