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David Woodhouse e675f0cc9a ppp: Don't stop and restart queue on every TX packet 
For every transmitted packet, ppp_start_xmit() will stop the netdev
queue and then, if appropriate, restart it. This causes the TX softirq
to run, entirely gratuitously.

This is "only" a waste of CPU time in the normal case, but it's actively
harmful when the PPP device is a TEQL slave — the wakeup will cause the
offending device to receive the next TX packet from the TEQL queue, when
it *should* have gone to the next slave in the list. We end up seeing
large bursts of packets on just *one* slave device, rather than using
the full available bandwidth over all slaves.

This patch fixes the problem by *not* unconditionally stopping the queue
in ppp_start_xmit(). It adds a return value from ppp_xmit_process()
which indicates whether the queue should be stopped or not.

It *doesn't* remove the call to netif_wake_queue() from
ppp_xmit_process(), because other code paths (especially from
ppp_output_wakeup()) need it there and it's messy to push it out to the
other callers to do it based on the return value. So we leave it in
place — it's a no-op in the case where the queue wasn't stopped, so it's
harmless in the TX path.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-03 17:31:38 -04:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
amba
ata 1) AHCI regression fix. A recent "make driver conform to spec" change 2012-03-22 20:22:30 -07:00
atm Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
auxdisplay
base Merge branch 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.linaro.org/people/sumitsemwal/linux-dma-buf 2012-03-28 15:02:41 -07:00
bcma
block Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-28 17:19:28 -07:00
bluetooth Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
cdrom
char drm/i915: disable ppgtt on snb when dmar is enabled 2012-04-02 15:59:07 +02:00
clk clk: make CONFIG_COMMON_CLK invisible 2012-03-19 09:37:11 +00:00
clocksource Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2012-03-29 16:53:48 -07:00
connector
cpufreq drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map. 2012-03-29 15:38:30 +10:30
cpuidle Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2012-03-22 18:15:32 -07:00
dca
devfreq ARM: global cleanups 2012-03-27 16:03:32 -07:00
dio
dma MTD merge for 3.4 2012-03-30 17:31:56 -07:00
edac Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac 2012-03-28 14:24:40 -07:00
eisa
firewire Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
firmware
gpio Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2012-03-29 16:53:48 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-fixes-intel' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-04-03 10:13:34 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-03-23 14:39:09 -07:00
hsi
hv
hwmon MFD changes for 3.4 2012-03-28 13:56:35 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
ide Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
idle drivers/idle/intel_idle.c: fix confusing code identation 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
ieee802154
infiniband Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2012-03-29 23:17:44 -07:00
iommu The IOMMU updates for this round are not very large patch-wise. But 2012-03-23 14:15:07 -07:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-04-02 17:53:39 -07:00
leds MFD changes for 3.4 2012-03-28 13:56:35 -07:00
lguest
macintosh Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
mca
md dm: add verity target 2012-03-28 18:43:38 +01:00
media ARM: cleanups of io includes 2012-03-29 18:02:10 -07:00
memstick memstick: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:19 +08:00
message Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
mfd Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
misc Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
mmc MTD merge for 3.4 2012-03-30 17:31:56 -07:00
mtd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-03-31 13:42:57 -07:00
net ppp: Don't stop and restart queue on every TX packet 2012-04-03 17:31:38 -04:00
nfc
nubus Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
of GPIO changes for v3.4 2012-03-28 14:08:46 -07:00
oprofile tidy up after d_make_root() conversion 2012-03-20 21:29:37 -04:00
parisc Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
parport
pci ASPM: Fix pcie devices with non-pcie children 2012-03-31 12:49:56 -07:00
pcmcia Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia 2012-03-29 16:00:48 -07:00
pinctrl
platform Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
pnp Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
power Various small bugfixes and enhancements, plus two new drivers: 2012-03-30 16:09:02 -07:00
pps
ps3
ptp
rapidio
regulator ARM: driver specific updates 2012-03-27 16:41:24 -07:00
remoteproc
rpmsg
rtc ARM: cleanups of io includes 2012-03-29 18:02:10 -07:00
s390 Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
sbus Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
scsi SCSI updates on 20120331 2012-03-31 13:31:23 -07:00
sfi
sh SuperH updates for 3.4 merge window 2012-03-30 00:09:17 -07:00
sn
spi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2012-03-29 15:34:57 -07:00
ssb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-03-20 21:04:47 -07:00
staging Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2012-03-22 12:38:04 -07:00
tc
thermal thermal: Fix for setting the thermal zone mode to enable/disable 2012-03-22 01:10:18 -04:00
tty Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
uio
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-04-02 17:53:39 -07:00
uwb uwb: use for_each_clear_bit() 2012-03-23 16:58:34 -07:00
vhost Merge branch 'vhost-net' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2012-03-23 14:46:48 -04:00
video ARM: cleanups of io includes 2012-03-29 18:02:10 -07:00
virt
virtio virtio-pci: switch to PM ops macro to initialise PM functions 2012-03-31 08:09:51 +05:30
vlynq
w1
watchdog ARM: cleanups of io includes 2012-03-29 18:02:10 -07:00
xen One tiny feature that accidentally got lost in the initial git pull: 2012-03-24 12:20:25 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-next' of git://gitorious.org/kernel-hsi/kernel-hsi 2012-04-02 09:50:40 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-next' of git://gitorious.org/kernel-hsi/kernel-hsi 2012-04-02 09:50:40 -07:00