ixgb: call netif_carrier_off early on down

Eliezer Tamir · Jeff Kirsher · commit d9d888b8b089 · 2015-03-20T17:41:52.000-07:00
When bringing down an interface netif_carrier_off() should be
one the first things we do, since this will prevent the stack
from queuing more packets to this interface.
This operation is very fast, and should make the device behave
much nicer when trying to bring down an interface under load.

Also, this would Do The Right Thing (TM) if this device has some
sort of fail-over teaming and redirect traffic to the other IF.

Move netif_carrier_off as early as possible.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ ixgb_down(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter, bool kill_watchdog)
 	/* prevent the interrupt handler from restarting watchdog */
 	set_bit(__IXGB_DOWN, &adapter->flags);
 
+	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+
 	napi_disable(&adapter->napi);
 	/* waiting for NAPI to complete can re-enable interrupts */
 	ixgb_irq_disable(adapter);
@@ -298,7 +300,6 @@ ixgb_down(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter, bool kill_watchdog)
 
 	adapter->link_speed = 0;
 	adapter->link_duplex = 0;
-	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 	netif_stop_queue(netdev);
 
 	ixgb_reset(adapter);
