Btw, there's *another* issue. You said in the commit log: This patch does *not* include any mechanism to wake a throttled TXQ again, on the assumption that this will happen anyway as a side effect of whatever freed the skb (most commonly a TX completion). Thinking about this some more, I'm not convinced that this assumption holds. You could have been stopped due to the global limit, and now you wake some queue but the TXQ is empty - now you should reschedule some *other* TXQ since the global limit had kicked in, not the per-TXQ limit, and prevented dequeuing, no? johannes