Commit da24e906 authored by Haiyang Zhang's avatar Haiyang Zhang Committed by David S. Miller

net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy

Instead of dropping the packet, we keep the skb buffer, and return
NETDEV_TX_BUSY to let upper layer retry send. This will not cause
endless loop, because the host is taking data away from ring buffer,
and we have called the stop_queue before returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY.

The stop_queue was called in the function netvsc_send() in file 
netvsc.c, then it returns to rndis_filter_send(), which returns to
netvsc_start_xmit() in file netvsc_drv.c. So the NETDEV_TX_BUSY is
indeed returned AFTER queue is stopped.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f24fd89a
......@@ -223,13 +223,10 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
net->stats.tx_packets++;
} else {
/* we are shutting down or bus overloaded, just drop packet */
net->stats.tx_dropped++;
kfree(packet);
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
}
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
return ret ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
/*
......
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