From d631b94e7a15277858ec5f88d674d93080506999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen hemminger Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:22:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] virtio: change comment in transmit The original comment was not really informative or funny as well as sexist. Replace it with a better explanation of why the driver does stop and what the impacts are. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 59b0e9754ae3..4e84236b62ce 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -939,8 +939,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) skb_orphan(skb); nf_reset(skb); - /* Apparently nice girls don't return TX_BUSY; stop the queue - * before it gets out of hand. Naturally, this wastes entries. */ + /* It is better to stop queue if running out of space + * instead of forcing queuing layer to requeue the skb + * by returning TX_BUSY (and cause a BUG message). + * Since most packets only take 1 or 2 ring slots + * this means 16 slots are typically wasted. + */ if (sq->vq->num_free < 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) { netif_stop_subqueue(dev, qnum); if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq))) { -- 2.20.1