virtio: change comment in transmit

The original comment was not really informative or funny
as well as sexist. Replace it with a better explanation of
why the driver does stop and what the impacts are.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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stephen hemminger 2015-03-24 16:22:07 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 835c3d9b7a
commit d631b94e7a
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -939,8 +939,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb_orphan(skb);
nf_reset(skb);
/* Apparently nice girls don't return TX_BUSY; stop the queue
* before it gets out of hand. Naturally, this wastes entries. */
/* It is better to stop queue if running out of space
* instead of forcing queuing layer to requeue the skb
* by returning TX_BUSY (and cause a BUG message).
* Since most packets only take 1 or 2 ring slots
* this means 16 slots are typically wasted.
*/
if (sq->vq->num_free < 2+MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
netif_stop_subqueue(dev, qnum);
if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq))) {