This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers: net: ethernet: cpsw: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue to the 3.8-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-cpsw-use-netif_wake_queue-while-restarting-tx-queue.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 48f7ec674de0c7aa71ace3ffa735808df99705f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:41:59 +0000 Subject: drivers: net: ethernet: cpsw: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b56d6b3fca6d1214dbc9c5655f26e5d4ec04afc8 ] 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/cpsw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ void cpsw_tx_handler(void *token, int le struct cpsw_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev); if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(ndev))) - netif_start_queue(ndev); + netif_wake_queue(ndev); cpts_tx_timestamp(&priv->cpts, skb); priv->stats.tx_packets++; priv->stats.tx_bytes += len; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx are queue-3.8/drivers-net-ethernet-cpsw-use-netif_wake_queue-while-restarting-tx-queue.patch queue-3.8/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