diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index c9997d83de07a73b96611bea559d5d3fc9a37c3f..91f542c50f61862e11c07db173c7d8b64860edc0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -5690,7 +5690,7 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector)
 	struct igb_adapter *adapter = q_vector->adapter;
 	struct igb_ring *tx_ring = q_vector->tx.ring;
 	struct igb_tx_buffer *tx_buffer;
-	union e1000_adv_tx_desc *tx_desc, *eop_desc;
+	union e1000_adv_tx_desc *tx_desc;
 	unsigned int total_bytes = 0, total_packets = 0;
 	unsigned int budget = q_vector->tx.work_limit;
 	unsigned int i = tx_ring->next_to_clean;
@@ -5702,16 +5702,16 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector)
 	tx_desc = IGB_TX_DESC(tx_ring, i);
 	i -= tx_ring->count;
 
-	for (; budget; budget--) {
-		eop_desc = tx_buffer->next_to_watch;
-
-		/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
-		rmb();
+	do {
+		union e1000_adv_tx_desc *eop_desc = tx_buffer->next_to_watch;
 
 		/* if next_to_watch is not set then there is no work pending */
 		if (!eop_desc)
 			break;
 
+		/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
+		rmb();
+
 		/* if DD is not set pending work has not been completed */
 		if (!(eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(E1000_TXD_STAT_DD)))
 			break;
@@ -5767,7 +5767,13 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector)
 			tx_buffer = tx_ring->tx_buffer_info;
 			tx_desc = IGB_TX_DESC(tx_ring, 0);
 		}
-	}
+
+		/* issue prefetch for next Tx descriptor */
+		prefetch(tx_desc);
+
+		/* update budget accounting */
+		budget--;
+	} while (likely(budget));
 
 	netdev_tx_completed_queue(txring_txq(tx_ring),
 				  total_packets, total_bytes);
@@ -5783,12 +5789,10 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector)
 	if (test_bit(IGB_RING_FLAG_TX_DETECT_HANG, &tx_ring->flags)) {
 		struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
 
-		eop_desc = tx_buffer->next_to_watch;
-
 		/* Detect a transmit hang in hardware, this serializes the
 		 * check with the clearing of time_stamp and movement of i */
 		clear_bit(IGB_RING_FLAG_TX_DETECT_HANG, &tx_ring->flags);
-		if (eop_desc &&
+		if (tx_buffer->next_to_watch &&
 		    time_after(jiffies, tx_buffer->time_stamp +
 			       (adapter->tx_timeout_factor * HZ)) &&
 		    !(rd32(E1000_STATUS) & E1000_STATUS_TXOFF)) {
@@ -5812,9 +5816,9 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector)
 				tx_ring->next_to_use,
 				tx_ring->next_to_clean,
 				tx_buffer->time_stamp,
-				eop_desc,
+				tx_buffer->next_to_watch,
 				jiffies,
-				eop_desc->wb.status);
+				tx_buffer->next_to_watch->wb.status);
 			netif_stop_subqueue(tx_ring->netdev,
 					    tx_ring->queue_index);