netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtio_net: return NETDEV_TX_BUSY instead of queueing an extra skb.

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:45:32 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtio_net: return NETDEV_TX_BUSY instead of
	queueing an extra skb.

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:25:57PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Or, we could just "return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;".  I like that :)

No you should fix it so that you check the queue status after
transmitting a packet so we never get into this state in the
first place.  NETDEV_TX_BUSY is just passing the problem to
someone else, which is not nice at all.

For example, anyone running tcpdump will now see the packet
twice.

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