igb: use netif_carrier_off earlier when bringing if down

Todd Fujinaka · Jeff Kirsher · commit f28ea083a3d2 · 2015-03-20T17:45:12.000-07:00
Use netif_carrier_off() first, since that will prevent the stack from
queuing more packets to this IF. This operation is fast, and should
behave much nicer when trying to bring down an interface under load.

Reported-by: Eliezer Tamir &lt;eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Todd Fujinaka &lt;todd.fujinaka@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -1776,6 +1776,7 @@ void igb_down(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
 	wr32(E1000_RCTL, rctl & ~E1000_RCTL_EN);
 	/* flush and sleep below */
 
+	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 	netif_tx_stop_all_queues(netdev);
 
 	/* disable transmits in the hardware */
@@ -1797,12 +1798,9 @@ void igb_down(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
 		}
 	}
 
-
 	del_timer_sync(&adapter->watchdog_timer);
 	del_timer_sync(&adapter->phy_info_timer);
 
-	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
-
 	/* record the stats before reset*/
 	spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
 	igb_update_stats(adapter, &adapter->stats64);
