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diff --git a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.4/400-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.4/400-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch
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--- a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.4/400-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-The hardware queue scheduling is apparently configured with fixed
-priorities, which creates a nasty fairness issue where traffic from one
-CPU can starve traffic from all other CPUs.
-
-Work around this issue by forcing all tx packets to go through one CPU,
-until this issue is fixed properly.
-
-Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
----
---- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
-+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
-@@ -3984,6 +3984,16 @@ static int mvneta_ethtool_set_eee(struct
- return phylink_ethtool_set_eee(pp->phylink, eee);
- }
-
-+static u16 mvneta_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
-+ void *accel_priv,
-+ select_queue_fallback_t fallback)
-+{
-+ /* XXX: hardware queue scheduling is broken,
-+ * use only one queue until it is fixed */
-+ return 0;
-+}
-+
-+
- static const struct net_device_ops mvneta_netdev_ops = {
- .ndo_open = mvneta_open,
- .ndo_stop = mvneta_stop,
-@@ -3994,6 +4004,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mvnet
- .ndo_fix_features = mvneta_fix_features,
- .ndo_get_stats64 = mvneta_get_stats64,
- .ndo_do_ioctl = mvneta_ioctl,
-+ .ndo_select_queue = mvneta_select_queue,
- };
-
- const struct ethtool_ops mvneta_eth_tool_ops = {