From: Martin Habets <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:51:31 +0000
> When the IP stack passes SKBs the sfc driver puts them in 2 different TX
> queues (called partners), one for checksummed and one for not checksummed.
> If the SKB has xmit_more set the driver will delay pushing the work to the
> NIC.
>
> When later it does decide to push the buffers this patch ensures it also
> pushes the partner queue, if that also has any delayed work. Before this
> fix the work in the partner queue would be left for a long time and cause
> a netdev watchdog.
>
> Fixes: 70b33fb ("sfc: add support for skb->xmit_more")
>
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Habets <[email protected]>
Please do not separate the Fixes: tag from the other tags with an
empty line. They should all solidly be together in an uninterrupted
block of text.
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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