linux/drivers/net/ppp
David Woodhouse e675f0cc9a ppp: Don't stop and restart queue on every TX packet
For every transmitted packet, ppp_start_xmit() will stop the netdev
queue and then, if appropriate, restart it. This causes the TX softirq
to run, entirely gratuitously.

This is "only" a waste of CPU time in the normal case, but it's actively
harmful when the PPP device is a TEQL slave — the wakeup will cause the
offending device to receive the next TX packet from the TEQL queue, when
it *should* have gone to the next slave in the list. We end up seeing
large bursts of packets on just *one* slave device, rather than using
the full available bandwidth over all slaves.

This patch fixes the problem by *not* unconditionally stopping the queue
in ppp_start_xmit(). It adds a return value from ppp_xmit_process()
which indicates whether the queue should be stopped or not.

It *doesn't* remove the call to netif_wake_queue() from
ppp_xmit_process(), because other code paths (especially from
ppp_output_wakeup()) need it there and it's messy to push it out to the
other callers to do it based on the return value. So we leave it in
place — it's a no-op in the case where the queue wasn't stopped, so it's
harmless in the TX path.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-03 17:31:38 -04:00
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bsd_comp.c
Kconfig
Makefile
ppp_async.c ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
ppp_deflate.c ppp: Change copyright notices from ANU to me 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
ppp_generic.c ppp: Don't stop and restart queue on every TX packet 2012-04-03 17:31:38 -04:00
ppp_mppe.c
ppp_mppe.h
ppp_synctty.c ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
pppoe.c ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
pppox.c ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
pptp.c ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.h 2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00