ethernet/arc/arc_emac: Fix huge delays in large file copies
copying large files to a NFS mounted host was taking absurdly large time. Turns out that TX BD reclaim had a sublte bug. Loop starts off from @txbd_dirty cursor and stops when it hits a BD still in use by controller. However when it stops it needs to keep the cursor at that very BD to resume scanning in next iteration. However it was erroneously incrementing the cursor, causing the next scan(s) to fail too, unless the BD chain was completely drained out. [ARCLinux]$ ls -l -sh /disk/log.txt 17976 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17.5M Sep /disk/log.txt ========== Before ===================== [ARCLinux]$ time cp /disk/log.txt /mnt/. real 31m 7.95s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.10s ========== After ===================== [ARCLinux]$ time cp /disk/log.txt /mnt/. real 0m 24.33s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.19s Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> (commit_signer:3/4=75%) Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:3/4=75%) Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: arc-linux-dev@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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