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| author | Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> | 2012-03-19 17:27:06 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-03-19 17:27:06 -0400 |
| commit | da24e906cbfc08171d24a2b7cf66fad565fdd121 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ce4464bb570ed4ff67298b724ef676000e4b08a /drivers | |
| parent | f24fd89ab5148d00f58aaf1d8999e9966fc7215c (diff) | |
net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy
Instead of dropping the packet, we keep the skb buffer, and return
NETDEV_TX_BUSY to let upper layer retry send. This will not cause
endless loop, because the host is taking data away from ring buffer,
and we have called the stop_queue before returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
The stop_queue was called in the function netvsc_send() in file
netvsc.c, then it returns to rndis_filter_send(), which returns to
netvsc_start_xmit() in file netvsc_drv.c. So the NETDEV_TX_BUSY is
indeed returned AFTER queue is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index 2517d209d60..dd294783b5c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -223,13 +223,10 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net) net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; net->stats.tx_packets++; } else { - /* we are shutting down or bus overloaded, just drop packet */ - net->stats.tx_dropped++; kfree(packet); - dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } - return NETDEV_TX_OK; + return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK; } /* |