This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8152: re-schedule napi for tx to the 4.9-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: r8152-re-schedule-napi-for-tx.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 15:00:53 CEST 2017 From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:38:33 +0800 Subject: r8152: re-schedule napi for tx From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 248b213ad908b88db15941202ef7cb7eb137c1a0 ] Re-schedule napi after napi_complete() for tx, if it is necessay. In r8152_poll(), if the tx is completed after tx_bottom() and before napi_complete(), the scheduling of napi would be lost. Then, no one handles the next tx until the next napi_schedule() is called. Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c @@ -1936,6 +1936,9 @@ static int r8152_poll(struct napi_struct napi_complete(napi); if (!list_empty(&tp->rx_done)) napi_schedule(napi); + else if (!skb_queue_empty(&tp->tx_queue) && + !list_empty(&tp->tx_free)) + napi_schedule(napi); } return work_done; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/r8152-fix-rtl8152_post_reset-function.patch queue-4.9/r8152-re-schedule-napi-for-tx.patch queue-4.9/r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-call-napi_schedule-during-autosuspend.patch queue-4.9/r8152-check-rx-after-napi-is-enabled.patch