Holger reported sporadic transmit timeouts and it turned out that one path misses ringing the doorbell. Fix was suggested by Eric.
Fixes: ef14358546b1 ("r8169: make use of xmit_more") Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index 641a34942..448047a32 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -5681,6 +5681,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, */ smp_wmb(); netif_stop_queue(dev); + door_bell = true; } if (door_bell) -- 2.22.0