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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index 65a8d49106a4..3b3f08489a5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -630,6 +630,16 @@ static void efx_start_datapath(struct efx_nic *efx)
efx->rx_buffer_order = get_order(efx->rx_buffer_len +
sizeof(struct efx_rx_page_state));
+ /* We must keep at least one descriptor in a TX ring empty.
+ * We could avoid this when the queue size does not exactly
+ * match the hardware ring size, but it's not that important.
+ * Therefore we stop the queue when one more skb might fill
+ * the ring completely. We wake it when half way back to
+ * empty.
+ */
+ efx->txq_stop_thresh = efx->txq_entries - efx_tx_max_skb_descs(efx);
+ efx->txq_wake_thresh = efx->txq_stop_thresh / 2;
+
/* Initialise the channels */
efx_for_each_channel(channel, efx) {
efx_for_each_channel_tx_queue(tx_queue, channel)
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