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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:33:30 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        Hooman Fazaeli <hoomanfazaeli@gmail.com>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jason Wolfe <nitroboost@gmail.com>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Emil Muratov <gpm@hotplug.ru>
Subject:   Re: Intel 82574L interface wedging on em 7.1.9/7.2.3 when MSIX enabled
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Hooman Fazaeli <hoomanfazaeli@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, this is not a driver issue and the real fix would be to change
> IFQ_HANDOFF to call if_start when the queue is full.

I'm not sure that's the right approach.  99% of the time, calling
if_start when the queue is full will be a waste of time. It seems to
me that the link interrupt handler needs to kick off the tx task to
drain the tx queue instead.


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