netdev - RE: [RFC] make qdisc_restart more readable

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 08:56:04 -0700
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	<hadi@...erus.ca>, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] make qdisc_restart more readable

> This compiles and passes some basic tests - no serious testing.
> Against net-2.6.
> 
> The patch is ugly looking, so i have at the end the 
> re-written qdisc; you can easily tell the rest from the patch.
> 
> Please flush out any fluff - I would like to submit this 
> (almost lost it, thanks to an early posting, found it).
> 
> 
> cheers,
> jamal

In qdisc_restart(), you removed any check for if
(!netif_queue_stopped(dev)) before calling dev_hard_start_xmit().  If
the underlying queue is stopped and you send the skb, you'll generate a
requeue.  Is there a reason it was removed?

Thx,

-PJ Waskiewicz 
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