Based upon a bug report by Andrew Gallatin on netdev
with subject "CPU utilization increased in 2.6.27rc"
In commit
37437bb2e1ae8af470dfcd5b4ff454110894ccaf
("pkt_sched: Schedule qdiscs instead of netdev_queue.")
the test of the queue being stopped was erroneously
removed from qdisc_run().
When the TX queue of the device fills up, this omission
causes lots of extraneous useless work to be queued up
to softirq context, where we'll just return immediately
because the device is still stuffed up.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
static inline void qdisc_run(struct Qdisc *q)
{
- if (!test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_RUNNING, &q->state))
+ struct netdev_queue *txq = q->dev_queue;
+
+ if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) &&
+ !test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_RUNNING, &q->state))
__qdisc_run(q);
}