diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1054a9a77cb7..4c67ff451a6d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 3f3dc0dd2086402b684545d66bb5ece93c76330b
+refs/heads/master: 3352a3b20ce880b17f185ad55bf27751f1c8edb9
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
index b8258509f9f9..a714c4d2d84b 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -1800,13 +1800,13 @@ ixgb_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter)
 
 	tx_ring->next_to_clean = i;
 
-	spin_lock(&adapter->tx_lock);
-	if(cleaned && netif_queue_stopped(netdev) && netif_carrier_ok(netdev) &&
-	   (IXGB_DESC_UNUSED(tx_ring) > IXGB_TX_QUEUE_WAKE)) {
-
-		netif_wake_queue(netdev);
+	if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(netdev))) {
+		spin_lock(&adapter->tx_lock);
+		if (netif_queue_stopped(netdev) && netif_carrier_ok(netdev) &&
+		    (IXGB_DESC_UNUSED(tx_ring) > IXGB_TX_QUEUE_WAKE))
+			netif_wake_queue(netdev);
+		spin_unlock(&adapter->tx_lock);
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&adapter->tx_lock);
 
 	if(adapter->detect_tx_hung) {
 		/* detect a transmit hang in hardware, this serializes the