e1000e: Change wthresh to 1 to avoid possible Tx stalls
This patch originated from Hiroaki SHIMODA but has been modified by Intel with some minor cleanups and additional commit log text. Denys Fedoryshchenko and others reported Tx stalls on e1000e with BQL enabled. Issue was root caused to hardware delays. They were introduced because some of the e1000e hardware with transmit writeback bursting enabled, waits until the driver does an explict flush OR there are WTHRESH descriptors to write back. Sometimes the delays in question were on the order of seconds, causing visible lag for ssh sessions and unacceptable tx completion latency, especially for BQL enabled kernels. To avoid possible Tx stalls, change WTHRESH back to 1. The current plan is to investigate a method for re-enabling WTHRESH while not harming BQL, but those patches will be later for net-next if they work. please enqueue for stable since v3.3 as this bug was introduced in commit 3f0cfa3b Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Date: Mon Nov 28 16:33:16 2011 +0000 e1000e: Support for byte queue limits Changes to e1000e to use byte queue limits. Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com CC: therbert@google.com Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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