On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 20:10 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> 1) netif_wake_queue is about to occur.  In this case it doesn't really
> matter what we do as netif_wake_queue will always wake the queue for us.
> In the worst case, it'll wake up the queue with too little room but that's
> really uncommon and we can cope with that anyway.
> 
In a lot of other drivers including tg3, waking the tx queue when there
is not enough room in the tx ring is considered a bug and will trigger a
BUG message:

BUG! Tx Ring full when queue awake!

May be David can explain why it is undesirable to wake up the queue when
it is full?

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