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net: ethernet: ti: cpts: purge staled skbs from txq
authorIvan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:00:21 +0000 (16:00 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:29:59 +0000 (16:29 -0800)
commit1e2169c85a7a9ccf84f6935332d0f01c5a6aa882
tree2664bc6f36a9fe11fc5bde149012c6c38f6a5577
parent0c2e2136f5c62398119f1514978a1c2852b5b7f9
net: ethernet: ti: cpts: purge staled skbs from txq

The overflow event is running with 1 jiffy in case if txq is not
empty, but it can be emptied completely only if next tx event
consumes skb or deletes staled skb from the txq. In case of staled
skb, that can happen for some unpredictable reason (the ts event was
lost or timed out), the overflow event can be generated quite long
time consuming CPU w/o reason before next tx event happens. To avoid
it, purge txq before increasing overflow event rate.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c