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    net: systemport: Rewrite __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() · 484d802d
    Florian Fainelli authored
    There is no need for complex checking between the last consumed index
    and current consumed index, a simple subtraction will do.
    
    This also eliminates the possibility of a permanent transmit queue stall
    under the following conditions:
    
    - one CPU bursts ring->size worth of traffic (up to 256 buffers), to the
      point where we run out of free descriptors, so we stop the transmit
      queue at the end of bcm_sysport_xmit()
    
    - because of our locking, we have the transmit process disable
      interrupts which means we can be blocking the TX reclamation process
    
    - when TX reclamation finally runs, we will be computing the difference
      between ring->c_index (last consumed index by SW) and what the HW
      reports through its register
    
    - this register is masked with (ring->size - 1) = 0xff, which will lead
      to stripping the upper bits of the index (register is 16-bits wide)
    
    - we will be computing last_tx_cn as 0, which means there is no work to
      be done, and we never wake-up the transmit queue, leaving it
      permanently disabled
    
    A practical example is e.g: ring->c_index aka last_c_index = 12, we
    pushed 256 entries, HW consumer index = 268, we mask it with 0xff = 12,
    so last_tx_cn == 0, nothing happens.
    
    Fixes: 80105bef ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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