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Commit 2367a173 authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by David S. Miller
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ixgbe: flush when in xmit_more mode and under descriptor pressure



When xmit_more mode is being used and the ring is about to
become full or the stack has stopped the ring, enforce a tail
pointer write to the hw. Otherwise, we could risk a TX hang.

Code suggested by Alexander Duyck.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 900405d0
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