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Commit 5f1a485d authored by Peter P Waskiewicz Jr's avatar Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Committed by David S. Miller
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[PKT_SCHED]: Check subqueue status before calling hard_start_xmit



The only qdiscs that check subqueue state before dequeue'ing are PRIO
and RR.  The other qdiscs, including the default pfifo_fast qdisc,
will allow traffic bound for subqueue 0 through to hard_start_xmit.
The check for netif_queue_stopped() is done above in pkt_sched.h, so
it is unnecessary for qdisc_restart().  However, if the underlying
driver is multiqueue capable, and only sets queue states on subqueues,
this will allow packets to enter the driver when it's currently unable
to process packets, resulting in expensive requeues and driver
entries.  This patch re-adds the check for the subqueue status before
calling hard_start_xmit, so we can try and avoid the driver entry when
the queues are stopped.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9418d5dc
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