netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:21:49 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	xiaosuo@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion_queue as a FIFO queue

Le dimanche 25 avril 2010 à 23:27 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> No matter what is faster, we have to process packets in
> FIFO order, otherwise we get reordering within a flow
> which is to be absolutely avoided.

Hmm, completion queue is about freeing skb, and its name is misleading.

This queue is feed by dev_kfree_skb_irq() only



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