myri10ge: Remove nonsensical limit in the tx done routine
Remove nonsensical limit in the tx done routine. Specifically,
the loop will always terminate after processing <= 1 rings worth
of frames, as the mcp index is not refetched, so the removed
conditional could never be true.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
diff --git a/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c b/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
index e1732c1..deca653 100644
--- a/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,6 @@
struct myri10ge_tx_buf *tx = &mgp->tx;
struct sk_buff *skb;
int idx, len;
- int limit = 0;
while (tx->pkt_done != mcp_index) {
idx = tx->done & tx->mask;
@@ -1091,11 +1090,6 @@
bus), len,
PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
}
-
- /* limit potential for livelock by only handling
- * 2 full tx rings per call */
- if (unlikely(++limit > 2 * tx->mask))
- break;
}
/* start the queue if we've stopped it */
if (netif_queue_stopped(mgp->dev)