[PATCH 1/1 net-next] fec: net: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Feb 28 15:39:42 EST 2013


From: Frank Li <Frank.Li at freescale.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:44:20 +0800

> +	int tx_pkts = fec_enet_tx(ndev);
> +
> +	if (tx_pkts)
> +		return budget;

This isn't right, you don't want to finish the NAPI poll because
TX work was done.

Ignore the TX work for poll completion purposes, see
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c:tg3_poll_work() for
example.



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