virtio-net: initially change the value of tx-frames
Background: 1. Commit 0c465be1 ("virtio_net: ethtool tx napi configuration") uses tx-frames to toggle napi_tx (0 off and 1 on) if notification coalescing is not supported. 2. Commit 31c03aef ("virtio_net: enable napi_tx by default") enables napi_tx for all txqs by default. Status: When virtio-net supports notification coalescing, after initialization, tx-frames is 0 and napi_tx is true. Problem: When the user only wants to set rx coalescing params using ethtool -C eth0 rx-usecs 10, or ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 0x1 -C rx-usecs 10, these cmds will carry tx-frames as 0, causing the napi_tx switching condition is satisfied. Then the user gets: netlink error: Device or resource busy. The same happens when trying to set rx-frames, adaptive_rx, adaptive_tx... How to fix: When notification coalescing feature is negotiated, initially make the value of tx-frames to be consistent with napi_tx. For compatibility with the past, it is still supported to use tx-frames to toggle napi_tx. Reported-by: Xiaoming Zhao <zxm377917@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Heng Qi <hengqi@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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