This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-net-ethernet-davinci_emac-use-netif_wake_queue-while-restarting-tx-queue.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1e6851d901fb77cfc326eb7b10d6b344ac832a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:42:00 +0000 Subject: drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue To restart tx queue use netif_wake_queue() intead of netif_start_queue() so that net schedule will restart transmission immediately which will increase network performance while doing huge data transfers. Reported-by: Dan Franke <dan.franke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Sriramakrishnan A G <srk@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static void emac_tx_handler(void *token, atomic_dec(&priv->cur_tx); if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(ndev))) - netif_start_queue(ndev); + netif_wake_queue(ndev); ndev->stats.tx_packets++; ndev->stats.tx_bytes += len; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx are queue-3.4/drivers-net-ethernet-cpsw-use-netif_wake_queue-while-restarting-tx-queue.patch queue-3.4/drivers-net-ethernet-davinci_emac-use-netif_wake_queue-while-restarting-tx-queue.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html