netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2 - rev2] qdisc_restart

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Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:57:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kumarkr@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	hadi@...erus.ca, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, tgraf@...g.ch, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 - rev2] qdisc_restart - couple of optimizations.

From: Krishna Kumar <kumarkr@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:24:11 +0530

> (Same from previous patch, resending for completion)
> 
> Changes :
> 
> - netif_queue_stopped need not be called inside qdisc_restart as
>   it has been called already in qdisc_run() before the first skb
>   is sent, and in __qdisc_run() after each intermediate skb is 
>   sent (note : we are the only sender, so the queue cannot get
>   stopped while the tx lock was got in the ~LLTX case).
> 
> - BUG_ON((int) q->q.qlen < 0) was a relic from old times when -1
>   meant more packets are available, and __qdisc_run used to loop
>   when qdisc_restart() returned -1. During those days, it was
>   necessary to make sure that qlen is never less than zero, since
>   __qdisc_run would get into an infinite loop if no packets are on
>   the queue and this bug in qdisc was there (and worse - no more
>   skbs could ever get queue'd as we hold the queue lock too). With
>   Herbert's recent change to return values, this check is not
>   required.  Hopefully Herbert can validate this change. If at all
>   this is required, it should be added to skb_dequeue (in failure
>   case), and not to qdisc_qlen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>

Also applied to net-2.6.23, thanks a lot!
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