netdev - Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:07:31 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Mark Wagner <mwagner@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:59:58AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:41 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >  {
> >         struct macvtap_queue *q = macvtap_get_queue(dev, skb);
> >         if (!q)
> > -               return -ENOLINK;
> > +               goto drop;
> > +
> > +       if (skb_queue_len(&q->sk.sk_receive_queue) >=
> > dev->tx_queue_len)
> > +               goto drop;
> > 
> 
> Do we need to orphan skb here, just like tun?

We could, but that is orthogonal to the problem at hand so feel
free to do that in another patch.

> >         skb_queue_tail(&q->sk.sk_receive_queue, skb);
> >         wake_up_interruptible_poll(sk_sleep(&q->sk), POLLIN |
> > POLLRDNORM | POLLRDBAND);
> > -       return 0;
> > +       return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
> > +
> > +drop:
> 
> Do we need to increase dropped++ counter here to let user know there are
> packets dropped?

The caller is supposed to handle this.

Cheers,
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