This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled qtnfmac: modify full Tx queue error reporting to the 4.14-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: qtnfmac-modify-full-tx-queue-error-reporting.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017 From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:13:46 +0300 Subject: qtnfmac: modify full Tx queue error reporting From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e9931f984dd1e80adb3b5e095ef175fe383bc92d ] Under heavy load it is normal that h/w Tx queue is almost full all the time and reclaim should be done before transmitting next packet. Warning still should be reported as well as s/w Tx queues should be stopped in the case when reclaim failed. Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c @@ -643,11 +643,11 @@ static int qtnf_tx_queue_ready(struct qt { if (!CIRC_SPACE(priv->tx_bd_w_index, priv->tx_bd_r_index, priv->tx_bd_num)) { - pr_err_ratelimited("reclaim full Tx queue\n"); qtnf_pcie_data_tx_reclaim(priv); if (!CIRC_SPACE(priv->tx_bd_w_index, priv->tx_bd_r_index, priv->tx_bd_num)) { + pr_warn_ratelimited("reclaim full Tx queue\n"); priv->tx_full_count++; return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/qtnfmac-modify-full-tx-queue-error-reporting.patch