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myri10ge: Remove nonsensical limit in the tx done routine

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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>
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Brice Goglin 2007-07-13 20:15:13 +02:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent be5ae97319
commit c97884b5de
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drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
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@ -1060,7 +1060,6 @@ static inline void myri10ge_tx_done(struct myri10ge_priv *mgp, int mcp_index)
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 @@ static inline void myri10ge_tx_done(struct myri10ge_priv *mgp, int mcp_index)
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)