igb: use netif_carrier_off earlier when bringing if down

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 <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Fujinaka <todd.fujinaka@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index f366b3b96d03..0e07545ccc97 100644
--- 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);